" Pig farming is tough, foul-smelling, and dirty work. Turns out, that’s the good part of it. See, since 2009 the American hog farming industry has been struck with an explosive pork poop problem—in that the decomposing porcine waste will go boom under the right conditions.
Since the phenomenon was first described four years ago, a half dozen such explosions have occurred throughout Iowa and Minnesota, stumping scientists as to the cause. The largest explosion killed all 1,500 hogs at the site and seriously burned a farm hand. Another lifted a barn “a couple of feet off the ground,” according to University of Minnesota researcher David Schmidt."
Will Dopers plunge in to investigate?