IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped trespassing charges against an activist who helped secretly record Iowa’s largest pork producer using heat to kill thousands of hogs last year as the ...

A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...

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The hog inventory in No. 2 North Carolina dropped by 7 percent to 8.5 million. Producers blamed the decline in North Carolina on the high cost of corn, which is shipped to the state to feed the hogs.

DES MOINES — Two of the state's largest hog operations are making changes including selling some facilities and cutting jobs. Iowa Select Farms, the largest Iowa-based hog producer, has cut 75 jobs in ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa lawmakers are expressing concern over a pork industry giant's plans to buy another leading hog producer and processor. Smithfield Foods Inc., the nation's largest pork ...

WALNUT, Iowa — Doug Matthies has spent most of his adult life in the hog business, and he would not have it any other way. Matthies, who serves as business improvement manager for Smithfield’s Midwest ...

A field with hog manure recently spread and incorporated into topsoil. Near Polk City, Iowa. (Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

LOUISA COUNTY, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a hog manure spill that reached a tributary of Roff Creek in rural Louisa County. On Oct. 16, the DNR’s Washington Field ...