1.   And the spills have handed opponents of corporate farming a handy weapon in their battle to stop large companies from completely dominating the U.S. hog business.

2.   But the rise of corporate farming put most family farming operations out of business.

3.   Environmental groups fear new regulations on corporate farming set to be issued by the Environmental Protection Agency are going to be far too weak from their perspective.

4.   Economists have a mixed view about the power of laws aimed at stopping corporate farming.

5.   In Lane County, farmer Gary McBee is pushing for county commissioners to rescind a resolution that allows corporate farming, fearing Murphy Farms may be on the doorstep.

6.   Kansas long had one of the strictest laws against corporate farming.

7.   Nebraska has kept the hog factories out by banning all corporate farming.

8.   One of the indisputable results of large-scale corporate farming in Iowa has been the depopulation of the countryside.

9.   The regulations that were shot down essentially allowed corporate farming to piggyback on the organic.

10.   The Seaboard controversy brings the issue of corporate farming back to the forefront in the Kansas Statehouse, long after legislators thought the matter was settled.