WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP, Minn. -- Ten hog farms sat in a three-mile ring around Lowell Trom's rural Dodge County home. When an eleventh got a permit, he fought it. Trom and his wife, Evelyn, sued and ...

Relentless rains this month have caused 17 manure pits at 15 large farms in southwestern Minnesota to overflow, releasing livestock waste into the environment. The overflows, all at open pit lagoons, ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- One of Canada's biggest cattle feedlots, Alberta-based Western Feedlots, said on Wednesday, Sept. 21, that it will suspend operations after marketing the cattle it currently owns ...

WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP -- Ten hog farms sat already in a three-mile ring around Lowell Trom's rural Dodge County home. When an 11th got a permit, he fought it. Evelyn and Lowell Trom are suing Dodge ...

The rapid growth of huge animal feedlots and slaughterhouses in the 1990s has outpaced the power of state and federal regulators to keep them operating safely and cleanly, leading to polluted rivers ...

I remember people raising a big stink about feedlots years and years ago. Why weren't the problems addressed or fixed back then? Well, it's because more and bigger feedlots continue to be planned, and ...

A Fillmore County farmer who sought to build the county's largest animal feedlot has withdrawn his permit application in the face of sustained local opposition, marking the end of the road for the ...

ST. PAUL — When MPCA Commissioner John Linc Stine denied the permit for the proposed Catalpa swine facility Tuesday, he also asked for a study that could have far-reaching ramifications. Citing ...

Some Custer-area ranchers and an environmental group have filed suit in Helena District Court to halt construction of a big cattle feedlot near the Yellowstone River on the far eastern edge of ...