FARGO, N.D. - A Cass County district judge will decide whether the North Dakota Department of Health properly approved a health permit for a large sow barn complex in western Cass County near the town ...

Decisions around sow barn remodeling, reducing sow herd inventory, and adjusting gilt flow are some of the challenges U.S. pork producers face as they explore and consider options to make farms ...

The hog industry is losing sows—pigs that are raised solely for the purpose of breeding other pigs—at an increasing rate. Reports vary, but the number shared last year at an annual gathering of pork ...

If your sows could choose a style of group housing, they would pick the one designed to keep them calm and comfortable. Electronic Sow Feeders with forward exits in correctly-designed group pens have ...

Danish farmer Jeppe Bloch from Vejen, 100 kilometres north of the German border, recently expanded his sow house to add 850 places. Animal-friendly electronic sow feeding system CallMatic feeds sows ...

Now that the North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that Pelican Township in Ramsey County, N.D., incorrectly denied a permit to Grand Prairie Agriculture for a planned sow barn, one of the people ...

Nick Fitzgerald shares about his work with Windy Oak Farms in November 2022, in Willow Lake, South Dakota. Windy Oak Farms, a pig owning and managing company at Mechanicsville, Iowa, owns shares of ...

Bob and Pam Gierke hold a "We Care" commitment poster signed by their employees and contract growers. "We Care" shows their care and concern for how pork is produced. The Gierkes were named October ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Costco Wholesale Corp. on Tuesday joined a growing list of retailers and restaurants in asking suppliers to phase out the use of small pens for pregnant sows, as an animal welfare group ...

California regulations that will require hog farms to provide sows with more housing space starting in 2022 will likely pose logistical challenges for pork exports while increasing production costs ...

Big Dutchman is the world’s leading supplier of housing and feeding equipment for modern pig and poultry production, represented in more than 100 countries around the globe. Danish farmer Jeppe Bloch ...