LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Covered swine barns dot the landscape near Platte Center, where tens of thousands of hogs are raised and fed. Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who ...

MORNING SUN, Iowa—Jean and Thomas Lappe rolled down the window of their 2010 Ford F-150 as they drove to one of the more than a dozen industrial hog farms that surround their home. A hog’s carcass was ...

Several volunteer firefighters spent more than four hours battling a fire that destroyed a Pillen Family Farms hog barn near Humphrey as frigid temperatures and wind complicated efforts.