Homegrown Pork (Storey, 2013) by Sue Weaver offers an outline on successfully raising pigs for modern backyard meat using humane and healthy techniques. Along the way we learn the secret to developing ...

The modern pig in breeding herds around the world has been managed to reach some of the highest levels of reproductive ...

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 ...

While driving, I frequently pass a small pen for farm animals. Usually the pen is empty, but one day I saw it holding a large pig. I stopped and asked the farmer about the pig. He told me the pig, a ...