This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ...

A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...

As Illinois’ pork industry creates millions in tax revenue and puts out billions in product, smaller hog farms in west-central Illinois say they had a fairly typical 2025.

Ranchland Packing Co. wants to move from its location at 1201 Centennial Ave., and open a new hog processing plant in the Tax Increment Financing Industrial District, west of Butte. Owner Gary Wold ...