The Forum reported on the North Dakota Sow Center seeking a $400,000 state grant to build four 5,000-pig farrowing barns in different locations in North Dakota. I have concerns regarding our tax money ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - Taylor Aasmundstad is just starting his agricultural career and wants to jump into animal agriculture, but some neighbors are opposed to the location near Devils Lake, a major ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - Taylor Aasmundstad is just starting his agricultural career and wants to jump into animal agriculture, but some neighbors are opposed to the location near Devils Lake, N.D., a ...

RAMSEY COUNTY-A proposed pig farm operation near Devils Lake is raising public health concerns in the area as residents wait on information from state officials and the opportunity to voice their ...

I want to respond to the letter “Pig barns bad for Sibley County” in the July 24 issue of the Leader. I don’t live in that county, but I am a third-generation pig farmer in Faribault County and ...

So did 11 week-old piglets, three show pigs and 10 chickens that didn’t survive the fast-moving fire. Cinch, a dog, and two sows made it out. One of the latter, Taffy, was mother of the newborn pigs.

A spokesperson from Prestage Farms said the fire occurred in only one barn on the farm site. The barn that burned was a farrowing house, used for birthing pigs, and contained about 380 sows and their ...

Matt Baumgartner, owner of June Farms in West Sand Lake, greets the farms' Gloucestershire Old Spots sows, named Lucy and Ethel, in a file photo from 2017. (Steve Barnes/Times Union) Ethel, a pregnant ...

This superbug could become a massive problem in two ways. One: If the gene is transferred from pigs to humans through fresh meat, as the researchers believe is possible, though has yet to ever happen.

Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard led legislative changes that sought to amend the minimum standards for pig farming that retained the use of both farrowing crates and mating stalls, but ...