WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP, Minn. -- Ten hog farms sat in a three-mile ring around Lowell Trom's rural Dodge County home. When an eleventh got a permit, he fought it. Trom and his wife, Evelyn, sued and ...

Westfield Township, Minn. -- Ten hog farms sat already in a three-mile ring around Lowell Trom's rural Dodge County home. When an 11th got a permit, he fought it. Trom and his wife Evelyn sued and ...

Relentless rains this month have caused 17 manure pits at 15 large farms in southwestern Minnesota to overflow, releasing livestock waste into the environment. The overflows, all at open pit lagoons, ...

A mention of farm country beckons images of quaint houses, big red barns, grazing cattle and sun-soaked crops. That’s how I recall farmsteads of my youth in west-central Minnesota, and how Sonja Trom ...

I remember people raising a big stink about feedlots years and years ago. Why weren't the problems addressed or fixed back then? Well, it's because more and bigger feedlots continue to be planned, and ...

WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP -- Ten hog farms sat already in a three-mile ring around Lowell Trom's rural Dodge County home. When an 11th got a permit, he fought it. Evelyn and Lowell Trom are suing Dodge ...