HAPPY AS A PIG IN MUD: Buncombe County Farm manager Don Collins cares for 18 pigs, who are all adoptable via Asheville Humane Society, at the county's barn in Black Mountain. Tiny tusks are visible on ...

Ever wonder just how many pigs, chickens, turkeys, cattle, lambs and goats live in Iowa? The answer is many more than there are people in the state. And that’s just the pigs. Iowa raised about 53.4 ...

Feral pigs are causing similar issues in Scotland as they are in the United States. Scottish farmers are facing problems with feral pigs attacking their livestock, with reports of pigs attacking and ...

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production.

The research used large datasets of Duroc and Yorkshire pigs to show how relatedness distorts standard measures of so-called ...

Genetically-altered pigs are now on the menu. The United States Food and Drug Administration has authorized gene-edited pigs entrance into the food chain for human consumption—as German-style sausages ...

In just 11 months, Vietnam has had to cull more than 1.23 million pigs due to African swine fever, not including losses from ...

(WESTERN WAYNE NEWS) — Oscar the miniature pig can stay home, just like it says in the “This Little Piggy” nursery rhyme lyrics. He might even pave the way for other miniature pet pigs to live within ...