The hog industry is losing sows—pigs that are raised solely for the purpose of breeding other pigs—at an increasing rate. Reports vary, but the number shared last year at an annual gathering of pork ...

Maddie Hokanson follows a simple, but profound, philosophy in life: start with why. As a seventh-generation farmer with ...

An Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station study showed female pigs had better reproductive health when placed on a slow-growth diet before being bred. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Borrowing a page from the ...

Get started here and learn all about how to breed pigs and about the pigs mating process. Keep your pig populations healthy by paying close attention and caring for your animals. In a previous article ...

Like a lot of food-obsessed people, I love pork. The chef David Chang, whose Manhattan restaurant Momofuku is practically a porcine temple, once declared the pig a “mystical, magical animal.” In ...

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. The speed breeding platform developed by ...

Pigs are supposedly smarter than the average barnyard animal, but the one that broke through a frozen pond on Thursday clearly did not grasp the physics of a 500-pound sow walking onto a one-inch ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's inventory of breeding sows rose 0.6% in October for the first monthly increase since April 2018, official figures showed, signalling that pig production may soon start to ...

BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said on Friday it had adjusted the national target for normal retention of breeding sows to 39 million from 41 million. It also adjusted the ...