Backed by a chorus of squeals and snorts from hundreds of swine, 10-year-old Colter Mikes guided his pig, Prancer, toward a title shot at the Junior Breed Swine Show at the AT&T Center on Thursday. On ...

The nation's year-over-year swine breeding herd inventory is continuing to shrink, dropping another 2% in a recent USDA report. The U.S. Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report, published by USDA's National ...

BREEDING AND SHOWING THESE HOGS. ARE YOU CUTE? YEAH. YOU’RE CUTE. DOROTHY AND ELPHABA ARE NOT ONLY CUTE, BUT A RARE BREED IN NORTH AMERICA. THEY ARE MASON PIGS IMPORTED FROM CHINA WITH A NAME THAT ...

FREDERIKA, Iowa -Carl Blake's goal when he started raising pigs four years ago was to breed a great-tasting pig. If the response from high-end chefs from Chicago to San Francisco is any indication, he ...

A devastating outbreak of African swine fever has destroyed an estimated half of China’s pig population over the past year or so. Bloomberg notes that some Chinese farmers have managed to increase the ...

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production. Large-scale operations prioritized a few specialized pig breeds, optimized for ...

A Maine farm owner believes that the only way to ensure a rare breed of pig survives is to get people interested in eating them. Susan Frank—whose farm is home to dozens of the country’s remaining 500 ...

A P5.5-MILLION community-based swine breeding facility was recently inaugurated in Ramon, Isabela, offering better chances to recover from the devastating impact of African swine fever (ASF). Funded ...