WORTHINGTON, Minn. -- Nearly two weeks after neighbors raised a stink over a proposed hog confinement building east of Adrian, Minn., by Son-D-Farms, Nobles County commissioners on Tuesday accepted a ...
On a sunny, windy November afternoon, Bruce Gibbens trudges down a muddy road toward one of his concrete-and-steel hog barns. Clean, crisp air whips across flat fields and ditches lined with melting ...
Samantha and Taylon LaMont of Carpenter, South Dakota, are pork producers in a boom for confined animal feeding operation permits in Clark County. Samantha, 31, manages the barn and cares for 2,400 ...