Photo: Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale, courtesy of Jacki Schilke. In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas…
Three weeks ago, Chris Petersen, a small-scale pig farmer in Clear Lake, Iowa, brought nine of his Berkshire hogs to slaughter at a nearby meat locker, which typically processes fewer than 10 pigs a…
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