4,000 pigs dead in Mower County barn fire
Four thousand pigs are dead after a barn fire in Mower County late Wednesday. According to the Brownsdale Volunteer Fire ...
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Empty Barns: Several Factors Shrink U.S. Swine Herd and Slow Expansion
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 ...
Hog Wild announces lineup for 11th Annual Fourth on the Farm
QUAKERTOWN — Hog Wild Productions and Morgan Creek Farms announced the lineup for the 11th Annual Fourth on the Farm running ...
Charlotte Observer25d
With little oversight, NC poultry farms raise 1 billion birds a year. Who pays the cost?
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 ...
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UPDATE: Brownsdale barn fire is deadliest barn fire involving pigs since 2021, according to Animal Welfare Institute
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 ...
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4,000 pigs lost in late Wednesday barn fire near Brownsdale
Once at the scene, firefighters observed a 102-foot by 148-foot hog barn fully engulfed in flames. "The barn and its contents ...
Barn fire kills 4,000 pigs in southern Minnesota
BROWNSDALE, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A devastating barn fire in southern Minnesota took the life of nearly 4,000 pigs that ...
Rock County Star Herald8d
Hills, Luverne fire departments respond to hog barn fire in Clinton Township
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 ...