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News » EnvironmentCorporate hog farms grow, and raise a stinkOdor a four-letter word in some towns that retaliate with regulationsL.G.

Patterson / APJared Windmann looks over the hogs he is raising under contract for Cargill on his farm east of Mexico, Mo.

Cargill is wanting to sign up farmers like Windmann in the area to raise hogs closer to their processing plants.MARK TWAIN LAKE, Mo.

- Dick Lawler says he won't surrender Mark Twain Lake, a recreation and drinking water resource for 21 communities in northeast Missouri, to a hog farm proposed nearby.The real estate agent and resident is leading the fight to stop what he calls a "declared war on our lake" by corporate interests.

He fears contamination, odor and loss of the community's quality of life.But if Lawler's camp fears large-scale hog farms would spoil the air, water, aesthetics and property values, young farmer Jared Windmann sees corporate hog farming as salvation.His family raises thousands of hogs under a contract with Minnesota-based Cargill Inc., an agreement tha...

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