Pig Death
Natural Pork Production II, the Harlan, Iowa farming group who was granted a special exception for a CAFO to contain 11,200 sows in Wayne County, recently suffered yet another a setback in their home state:
BRAYTON, Iowa State natural resources officials say as many as a thousand pigs may have been destroyed by a fire at a hog confinement building in southwest Iowa.
Fire officials say an automatic fire alarm sounded at the Natural Pork Production building located two miles west of Brayton at about 3 a.m. today. Firefighters from Brayton and neighboring counties fought the flames for 4 1/2 hours before getting the fire under control. The wood-framed metal building was built in 2002. It is one of five hog production facilities in Iowa that houses as many as five thousand sows.
