Laws and recent court rulings have paved the way for large-scale hog barns to expand, becoming a problem for people who live nearby
often owned by a company contracting with a local farmer. The factory-style operations are an economic driver in agriculture-dominated states like Iowa, and a boon to many smaller, struggling pork producers.left residents with fewer avenues to stop their expansion., who owns six hog barns in southeast Iowa with his family, said the operations offer a way for him and his children to continue farming.
Hogs outnumber residents by about 7 to 1 in Iowa, the top pork producer in the nation. Hog farms and pork processors directly employed 36,070 workers here in 2021, according to the National Pork Producers Council. , said Eldon McAfee, a lawyer who has represented the Iowa Pork Producers Association and individual hog producers. In some, other neighbors testified they were unbothered by the operations.
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