By Nina Elkadi for Sentient. Broadcast version by Mark Moran for Iowa News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News ...
as the dairy farm’s offices and part of the milking parlor burned down. Owner Gretchen Metzler said the cause of the blaze is unknown, but the Martinsburg Fire Department is investigating.
Hemlock Lane Farm LP, owned by Robert, Darren and Randy Brubaker, plans to construct an approximately 40,581-square-foot facility to handle 4,800 feeder pigs, which will be finished as fat hogs ...
The fire service said the farm's owner had been left "devastated" by the loss and it would be investigating the cause of the blaze. Emergency services arrived at the farm at 04:49 GMT, and scaled ...
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Still other Pillen operations, like a Holt County hog farm, have recorded nitrate levels higher than Chris Jones, a former University of Iowa water researcher, says he’s ever seen. The Holt ...
Hog prices have skyrocketed 35% since July, defying expectations and fueling a surge in optimism among producers.
former University of Iowa water quality researcher and author of book “The Swine Republic.” Other Pillen hog barns look much like the hundreds of other pig farms spread across Nebraska ...
Seven Players from the 2023 Iowa high school state football championships were honored by the Iowa Pork Producers for their valuable, but often unheralded, contributions. The Hog of the Game Award ...
As the front moved through the region, wind directions shifted and went through cattle and hog farms in Iowa and Nebraska. Late-season cold fronts that shift the region's wind are somewhat common ...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will include commercial farms and swine herds under its hog repopulation program for the controlled vaccination against African swine fever (ASF) to fasttrack ...