"The benefit to the hog producer is that he won't have to feed the pig to the same weight to get the same amount of lean meat, and can save time and money." Complete details of how hog farmers can ...

They have used two tactics that would not be practical in many other countries. First, depopulate their hog farmers. Any farm below about 500 head could receive a bad-news letter to simply shut down.

Hog farmers now spend less than $50/cwt., compared to more than $110 in 1974, adjusted for inflation. Lory notes that nutrition has a lot to do with that. Farmers now use better diets designed to ...

Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who grew up a few miles from here, built his small family farm into a global pork empire and then became governor. Gov. Jim Pillen’s hog operations ...

OXFORD, CT — A family hog farm established in Oxford in 1900 is one of 20 recipients who will share $1.475 million in state funding to farmers and non-profits involved in production agriculture ...

Hog prices have skyrocketed 35% since July, defying expectations and fueling a surge in optimism among producers.

HOG FARMERS said burdensome documentation requirements have delayed their participation in the government’s limited rollout of the African Swine Fever (ASF) vaccine. Alfred Ng, vice-chairman of the ...

This story was originally published by the Sentient. When Brent Hershey entered the hog business, he was told that every pork producer in America uses gestation crates on their farm. Gestation crates ...

Along with the rise of the modern World Wide Web came the introduction of the JPEG image compression standard in 1992, allowing for high-quality images to be shared ...

A farmer who “hog-tied” two alleged trespassers and drove them on his quad bike to his local police station has been arrested for his actions. The 52-year-old farmer from Trawden, Lancashire ...

The proposed rules have drawn both praise and concern from leading environmental organizations in Arkansas, as they would place a permanent ban on hog farms in the Buffalo River watershed but also ...