Symbols like red barns, rolling green pastures ... Today, the vast majority of farm animals are raised on factory farms; not on rolling pastures. Space is particularly tight for chickens.

Collins said the same industrial forces that dotted the Midwestern landscape with round and multisided barns also made them obsolete. Factory farms gradually replaced many family farms ...

It is no secret that the idyllic image of agriculture — red barns, small herds of grazing cattle and family ... In their place, large industrial-scale factory farms now dominate the market. Factory ...

WASHINGTON— Community and conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today for overstepping its authority in exempting factory farms from pollution-reporting requirements ...