Proposed designs show a 272-foot building that will have the capacity to house 36 cattle tie stalls, 22 double goat pens, 50 sheep pens and 80 hog pens. A large show ring will sit in the center of ...

MINNEAPOLIS—As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in tight cages can expect to pay for their cle… ...

Putting open pens into existing barns cuts production because the buildings can't hold as many sows, said Dave Warner, spokesman for the National Pork Producers Council. But building bigger barns ...