A lot of empty barns in the industry because of disease pressure.” He says he has ‘put the brakes’ on expansion. “The hog slaughters are reduced 5 to 6 percent because we’ve had such ...

BROWNSDALE, Minn. — Four thousand pigs are dead after a barn fire in Mower County late Wednesday. According to the Brownsdale ...

FRIENDSHIP TOWNSHIP — The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office on Saturday was called to a hog farm for two individuals ... the individuals from the hog barn. Life-saving measures were ...

At about 11:52 p.m. on Wednesday night, Brownsdale Fire Department responded to a barn fire on 570th Avenue. According to BFD, responders observed a large hog barn fully engulfed in flames. 4000 pigs ...

Volunteer firefighters from Hills and Luverne enter the empty hog production facility at 1153 41st St. near Steen Wednesday, Feb. 5, to extinguish the fire that was contained in the attic. Photo ...

But no one has applied brakes to the poultry industry. Like the big hog farms, poultry farms confine thousands of animals inside huge barns. Usually owned by corporations, the birds stay long ...

Once at the scene, firefighters observed a 102-foot by 148-foot hog barn fully engulfed in flames. "The barn and its contents ...

BROWNSDALE, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A devastating barn fire in southern Minnesota took the life of nearly 4,000 pigs that ...

BROWNSDALE, Minn. (KTTC) – A devastating barn fire in Brownsdale took the life of nearly 4,000 pigs in what ended as the nation’s worst barn fire since 2021, according to the Animal Welfare Institute.