Chinese hog farmers should not excessively eliminate breeding sows, a farm official urged on Wednesday, after a prolonged period of heavy losses raised the risk of many exiting the business. Adds ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Vivienne Coleman, a pregnant, emotional 160kg sow needing a cuddle is all in a day's work. Ms Coleman runs free-range pig farm Bedford Park at St Lawrence, two hours' drive north-west of ...

A strategic review of Scotland's pig industry concludes that it needs a breeding herd of 45,000 sows to provide 20,000 finished pigs per week, the level required for viability. The report follows the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...