How nightmarish high-rise indoor pig farms dubbed ‘hog hotels’ can raise & slaughter 1.2MILLION beasts a year in China
MILLIONS of pigs are being raised for slaughter in new high-rise buildings the size of Big Ben across cities in China. On the outskirts of Ezhou in the eastern Hubei Province, stands the ...
Charlotte Observer10d
With little oversight, NC poultry farms raise 1 billion birds a year. Who pays the cost?
For many years, hog farming was North Carolina’s best-known industrial-scale agricultural sector. The state imposed a moratorium on new swine farms in 1997 following concerns about the ...
Arkansas Times10d
Bill that could make it harder to stop hog farming near Buffalo River continues to stall
Arkansas Farm Bureau, a supporter of the legislation, said the bill would not prevent moratoriums of hog farming on the ...
eFeedLink18h
Thailand's pig production on the rise -- but prices fall and small-scale farmers suffer
Pig production in Thailand rose by 6.19% last year, reaching 21.723 million heads, compared to 20.456 million in 2023.
al.com11d
From hog farming to play calling: How Alabama OC Ryan Grubb got start pig wrangling
Instead, he spent 6 1/2 years working in Kingsley, Iowa, a town of about 1,400 people about 30 minutes from Nebraska, on his family’s hog farms. The experience, which included management and ...
The Sun15d
How nightmarish high-rise indoor pig farms dubbed ‘hog hotels’ can raise & slaughter 1.2MILLION beasts a year in China
Pig meat is so vital to China that in 2019, the State Council ruled that all government departments needed to support the pork industry including giving financial aid to boost large farms ...