1.   An environmental group on Wednesday criticized the use of economic development money to draw large corporate hog farms to Missouri, creating pollution problems.

2.   And below the giant new hog farms of the Midwest, researchers are detecting animal hormones and antibiotics.

3.   And while many hog farms have shut down, some farmers say the contracting system has allowed their operations to stay alive.

4.   And who knows what else is coming from the hog farms.

5.   As a result, the runoff from hog farms dumps millions of tons of phosphorus-tainted waste into the soil.

6.   Bankers in Cantrall are nervously eyeing hog farms the way bankers in Rio de Janeiro are anxiously examining coffee plantations.

7.   A hog farm near the railroad and farming town of Milford, Utah, could get even bigger.

8.   A series of long, low warehouses contain what is less a hog farm than a pork factory.

9.   Allow local control of where hog farms can be built.Iowa county officials had that power until legislators removed it last year, Mr. Braun said.

10.   But Dye and other opponents of the large hog farms believe those rules are too weak to bring relief to rural residents like the Millers and Blackburns.