The Rocks built a round house ten feet in diameter for the pigs’ shelter and Valerie says they’re planning to use the Swedish deep bedding method this winter–laying down three feet of hay or ...

But when the hog market crashed, the Janousek farm was put in jeopardy. “Back in 1998, hogs were 10 cents a pound, so we were getting $25 for a hog, and I said, we’ve got to do something ...

Smithfield Foods says it will pay farmers to cover their manure ponds with plastic on more than 1,000 U.S. farms. Those "lagoons" have become increasingly controversial.

The farm turned dead pigs, rotten meat and hog manure into electricity. Its system oozed more than four Olympic-size swimming pools of foam while NC weakened regulations.

The DEQ has already granted four biogas permits to the hog facilities in eastern North Carolina as part of a $500 million program known as Align Renewable Natural Gas, or Align RNG, a joint ...

An environmental charity has objected to a pig farm operator's retrospective planning application. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) criticised food producer Cranswick's revised application for ...

The farm turned dead pigs, rotten meat and hog manure into electricity. Its system oozed more than four Olympic-size swimming pools of foam while NC weakened regulations.