No, currently it is not. It would be impossible to pasture-raise pigs on any sort of scale. They would require 1/4 acre for every 8-9 pigs. Hogs/pigs are not grazing animals like cows or sheep ...

The number of pigs euthanized because of COVID-19 in Iowa is unknown. Producers are not required to report euthanasia to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.

I have been an Iowa pig farmer all my life. With more than 60 years of experience raising pigs, I’ve gone through many changes in how I do things. I've raised pigs on pasture and in hog houses ...

A couple new porcine residents moved in at Gale Woods this week. Two pregnant gilts have now joined the chickens and sheep in the barn. We purchased them from a small hog farm in Willmar where they… ...

An Iowa farmer surrendered pigs Charlotte and Phoebe to an Farmaste Animal Sanctuary in Lindstrom, Minnesota.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said Gov. Chris Christie’s veto of a ban that would have prohibited the use of pig gestation crates in New Jersey was a “good decision.” According to the Des Moines ...

Iowa is the nation's largest producer of pork, according to the National Pork Producers Council, with a gross state product of about $4.1 billion a year. Featured Weekly Ad ...

Ionia, IA – From California's Silicon Valley to the cornfields of Iowa, former computer engineer and now pig farmer, Carl Blake is reinventing the way that Americans eat their pork.