SALEM TWP. – Paul D’Agostin of Will-O-Bet Farms, 139 Bomboy Lane, was given conditional approval Thursday by the township supervisors to undertake a swine-raising operation on his farm that ...

Plans for a ‘social housing’ caravan park at a former pig farm have been rejected after more than 100 residents objected.

PHOENIX — Hundreds of young hogs scurried back and forth in pens, snorting and bumping into one another.

A plan to convert old pig farm buildings into new homes on greenbelt land would set a ‘devastating precedent’, objectors claim.

This is the first story in a three-part series called Hogtied, which examines the political, regulatory and economic forces shaping a proposal to build the state’s largest pig farm.

The pong from the growing pork business near Preston has forced the city council to throw out plans for nine bungalows on land next door - just as it did for 45 homes close by in 2020.

Plans for 50 homes and a GP surgery should be rejected because of inadequate parking, highways chiefs have warned.

Molecular farming company Moolec has inserted pig genes into soy beans to generate meaty-tasting proteins that can be grown in plants.

Hong Kong conservation authorities will cull 2,800 pigs after an outbreak of African swine fever was uncovered at a farm in Yuen Long.