Going hog-wild! Neighbors up in arms over pig farms.
MILO, Iowa--Not since the three pigs squared off against the big bad wolf has there been such stink over where pigs should live. The pigs at the center of today's controversy, though, don't come from a storybook. They are real pigs, which provide us with pork, ham, and...

Intensive hog farming in Manitoba: transnational treadmills and local conflicts *.
THE TRAGEDY IN WALKERTON, ONTARIO, and growing fears of water contamination in other parts of rural Canada, have added to the debate about intensive livestock operations (ILOs) designed for the large-scale factory farming of animals (Edwards and Ladd, 2000; Thu, 1996; Thu and Durrenberger, 1994; Durning and Brough, 1991)....

Watch out for killer algae: years of dumping hog wastes into North Carolina rivers has created a monster.
Imagine a microscopic marine predator which can spend years at a time without food, but which, when conditions are favorable, suddenly emerges from the sediment, changes shape and kills millions of fish after stunning them with a poison so powerful it can cause immuno-suppression in humans. Find it hard to...

Hog raisers to hold confab in Cebu.
The country?s biggest national federation of commercial hog raisers will hold its 12th national convention and exhibit in Cebu City on April 25 to 26. This is the National Federation of Hog Farmers, Inc. (NFHFI) headed by chairman Nemesio Co which counts on 20-member associations across the...

Hog raisers to hold confab in Cebu.
The countrys biggest national federation of commercial hog raisers will hold its 12th national convention and exhibit in Cebu City on April 25 to 26. This is the National Federation of Hog Farmers, Inc. (NFHFI) headed by chairman Nemesio Co which counts on 20-member associations across the...

Working to lessen odors from high plains hog farms. (EH Update).
Researchers in the Texas Tech University (TTU) College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources are developing a way to eliminate the stink associated with the hog industry. They are raising pigs in what is called the "Sustainable Pork" production system, which rears the pigs under conditions that are more...

Pigging Out.
Huge pork producers devour small farmers Linus Solberg's hogs are giving birth again this spring. Purebred hogs have been the mainstay of his farm near Cylinder, Iowa, every year since 1958. "I really like hogs," says Solberg. "Hogs were one of the reasons I decided to get...

Bio Watch.
To Bee or Not To Bee UK -- The British scientific community was rocked by the discovery Last April that bees had carried pollen from genetically modified (GM) oilseed rape 4.5 kilometers from a farm test site. (Government standards require only a 50-meter separation between GM crops and other...

How the farm crisis affects one farm: reflections of a hog producer.
(This article was written and sent to two members of the Ontario legislature by Wilma Jeffray who, along with her husband, Ross, and their four children, operates a pork farm near Belmore, Ontario.) We farm a 90-sow, farrow-to-finish operation with a small beef-feeding operation as well. We...

High-stake hogs in South Dakota.
Life may not be so sunny for Sioux tribal members if Sun Prairie Farms gets its way and constructs the third-largest hog operation in the world on tribal land in Mellette County, South Dakota. The farms would produce 859,000 hogs a year on 13 sites and generate three times...