In addition to being one of the world’s worst invasive species and the vectors of several terrible diseases, feral swine also have names that are insults. Being called a “pig” is not exactly the same ...

“As you think about the breeding herd, you could argue we have one of the youngest and most productive sow herds we’ve ever had,” says Lee Schulz. Although there were no earth-shattering surprises in ...

Swine, hog, boar, sow, bacon factory, porker and hog are all words to describe a pig. But Pat Brown of Prince George’s County Maryland calls her pig Gwendolyn. More importantly to Pat, Gwendolyn is a ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — Kristin Boyum and Katie Loppnow said they can hardly believe that BOLO Show Pigs sold a Yorkshire boar at the recent World Pork Expo for $100,000. The boar, which they named Herman, ...

A study published in the International Journal of Agriculture Innovation, Technology and Globalisation looks at a ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I recently took a drive into the mountains, where I was doing some hiking near the Jackson County/Transylvania ...

China importing high quality breeding sows and hogs Country's pig herd decimated by African swine fever More than 150 plane loads of pigs needed - genetics firm Genetics companies jostle for China ...

On Wednesday, a naked sunbather chased a wild pig who had stolen his laptop across the picnic grounds of a lakeside park in Berlin, Germany. The latest in a spate of encounters between humans and an ...

ECONOMISTS RARELY think about the average gestation period of pigs (115 days) or the length of time a sow needs to reach sexual maturity (roughly six months). But in China, a basic knowledge of ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Six planes carrying more than 4,000 high-quality French breeding pigs have arrived in China so far this year, the first of an expected dozens of plane-loads as the world's top pork ...