Megan Kavanagh, the swine unit manager, is excited about the new possibilities. She jumped into the position in August 2024, ...

As of Dec. 1, there were 75.5 million hogs and pigs across U.S. swine production systems. The Q4 2025 inventory was up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Mike Williams' auctioneer chant is so fast that, to the untrained ear, it's an incomprehensible mumble with the occasional dollar figure bubbling to the surface. Leading a sale of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pigs stole the show Friday afternoon, just as they do every year about this time inside the Bob Stotler Swine Pavilion at the Kern County Fair. Prodded by their young handlers, stout, four-legged ...

Peru is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the genetically modified guinea pig that appears on menus across the country. Developed in 2004 by the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation, this breed ...