Iowa’s 5,172 pig farms help create more than 64,000 jobs in the state from hog production, more than 39,000 from hog slaughter and more than 16,000 from hog processing, totaling 120,231 jobs.

Iowa is the top hog-producing state in the country, housing 24 million hogs. Iowa’s factory farms produce 108 billion pounds ...

Subsequently, the retailer pulled the products and the Pastureland Farms program was put on hold for several years. Then, in 1997, AWI’s husbandry program was resurrected when an Iowa pig farmer ...

Washington native Gracie Greiner Marlow was Iowa State Pork Queen in 2019, and a frequent 4-H and FFA showman. Graduating ...

The Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) is proud to honor five exceptional high school girls basketball players with the ...

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 ...

But not to the agents. “I’m a vegan, so I would like to apologize to pigs,” Weilein said. “I volunteer at Iowa Farm Sanctuary, so a lot of the pigs are my homies.” In addition to Iowa Farm Sanctuary, ...