Sonja Eayrs' book "Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America" has been named a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. Sonja Eayrs talks with a guest at a book signing ...

In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point.  For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built ...

Eayrs' book, "Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America" has been named a finalist for the ...

Iowa, the pig capital of the US, manure output is equivalent to that of Bangladesh, a country of 165 million people.