“Currently, there are approximately 300 cattle or hog operating permits but we cannot provide how many have monoslopes or hoop barns as that information is not tracked our database,” she said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspected livestock for a flesh-eating parasite in Strawberry Plains Tuesday.

Carl and Karen Piper’s confinement barn near Davenport will be the first stop at 11 a.m. This facility features a 50-foot-by-476-foot hoop barn that was constructed in 2022 and is permitted for 500 ...

The cows are housed in the hoop buildings for three months. “There can be a lot of mud in March, so we calve in the hoop barns and keep the pairs in for 50 to 60 days,” Carroll said.

Our large gambrel style barn was a working barn that housed sheep, black Angus cattle, chickens, a couple of mutts, several cats and dozens of bats that would emerge from the rafters at dusk.

This was one reason George Wassmann and his sons, Danny and Dustin, of Boonville, Mo., decided to consider housing cattle under roof. Seeing an opportunity in his area to background more cattle, the ...

Hoop buildings remain a viable alternative for warehousing hogs and cattle. “Many of our producers use hoop buildings,” says Phil Kramer, a regional field agent for Niman Ranch based in northern Iowa.

The barn has always held livestock of various kinds. In 1964, it was converted to a place for farrowing hogs. In 1975, it was used for the transfer of purebred embryos into beef cattle.

Inside the hoop barn, there are six large pens for the cattle, with each pen holding 100 head. The inside cattle working area has a Silencer Chute tub system and two turret gates, an insulated ...