Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 9—PARKSTON, S.D. — When pigs from Dakota Gold Show Pigs walk into the show ring, people tend to take notice. At this year's ...

United States pork producers tasked the National Pork Producers Council with leading an effort to update the existing swine traceability system. NPPC is asking swine producers, veterinarians, cull ...

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 ...

Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are believed to have branched off from wild boars (Sus scrofa) through domestication events that occurred independently in East Asia and the Near East, beginning ...

A dream 20 years in the making is now a reality for the Curtis family. “It used to just be him with a few sows, then as I came on board, we’ve increased our hospitality and marketing and all of that, ...

Researchers with the University of Arkansas have found that slowing the growth rate of female pigs before breeding would allow for more piglets and healthier sows. Charles Maxwell, professor of animal ...