National Maps

Each county is ranked from Extreme to None based on the total number of animals living on factory farms. Factory farms are operations confining 500+ head of beef cattle on feed, 500+ dairy cows, 1,000+ hogs, 100,000+ egg-laying hens or 500,000+ broiler (meat) chickens sold each year. For complete methodology, visit our issue brief, Factory Farm Nation: 2020 [1].

All Livestock on Factory Farms

Hogs on Factory Farms

Dairy Cows on Factory Farms

Broiler Chickens on Factory Farms

Egg-Laying Hens on Factory Farms

Feedlot Beef Cattle on Factory Farms

State Maps

These are a few of the states with an extreme takeover of factory farms. Click here to see our related issue brief. [1]

Iowa Hogs [2] on Factory Farms 

Wisconsin Dairy Cows [3] on Factory Farms

New York Dairy Cows [4] on Factory Farms 

North Carolina Hogs [5] on Factory Farms

Oregon Livestock [6] on Factory Farms