Third generation hog farmer Chad Leman, making his daily rounds, points to dozens of 300-pound pigs. "These pigs should be gone," he said. He means gone to the meatpacking plant to be processed. But ...

One Minnesota hog farmer sealed the cracks in his barn and piped carbon dioxide through the ventilation system. Another farmer has considered gassing his animals after loading them into a truck. And a ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to make room for the 7,500 piglets he expected from his ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s 5:30 a.m. on a recent Monday and Sean Stanton is using a flashlight to hook a trailer loaded with four pigs to his cargo van. He’s about to make the hour and 15 minute trip to ...