Fermy świń w Illinois - Sipa

Over 2,000 3-week-old freshly weaned piglets are loaded into a truck for shipping to an Illinois hog confinement facility, where they'll be raised to...

Piglets fill a truck as they're shipped from a large breeding facility to an Illinois hog confinement operation to be grown for market. (Photo by Stac...

Robert Young, who raises pigs owned by big companies, walks through his farm in Rochester, Ill. Young opened his operation amid protest from some neig...

Contract grower Robert Young is seen at his hog confinement operation in Sangamon County, Ill. As Young began building his facility, six nearby famili...

Matt Heissinger opens the door to his barn before feeding cattle at his farm in Sangamon County, Ill. "If the wind is blowing, we're getting hit," Hei...

The pig waste lagoon at Hopkins Ridge Farms in Iroquois County, Ill., a hog confinement operation where 8,000 pigs are raised for market each year. A...

A white-tailed deer runs through Hooper Branch, a ditch adjacent to Hopkins Ridge Farms that connects to Beaver Creek, in Iroquois County, Ill. For ne...

Illinois Conservation Police Officer Holly Vadbunker patrols near the Rock River and Kankakee River State Park in Bourbonnais, Ill. Vadbunker was a fi...

Retired farmer Leland Ponton fishes along Beaver Creek. "We are just now seeing fish move around a little bit," he said of the rural Illinois creek, w...

A sick pig is separated from the others at Jeff Seabaugh's hog confinement in Montgomery County, Ill. Seabaugh also has a "sick bay" pen where ailing...

Jeff Seabaugh gives a struggling piglet a "booster shot" of antibiotic at his Montgomery County, Ill. growing operation. Seabaugh raises the animals f...

Hog confinement operator Jeff Seabaugh removes a dead pig from one of his sheds in Montgomery County, Ill. Premature deaths are common; Seabaugh lost...

Jeff Seabaugh walks through a shed housing large pigs at his operation in Montgomery County, Ill. Seabaugh grows about 20,000 pigs each year. (Photo b...

Pigs move around in their pens at Seabaugh Pork Farms in Walshville on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Across Illinois, large hog confinements have exploded...