In 2009, Ross founded Peculiar Pig Farm, named for the way he remembers watching his grandfather’s hogs shuffle around. He started taking pigs to the market, following the path his grandfather had ...

Step inside the world of modern pig farming, where advanced techniques and technology are reshaping traditional practices. Discover how farmers are using innovative breeding, feeding, and health ...

The most intelligent farm animals by a mile, pigs possess the mental capacity of 3-year-old children, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge Veterinary School in England. Yet the need ...

‘Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat’ by Barry Estabrook W.W. Norton, 335 pp., $26.95. As my father said, repeatedly when I was devouring huge amounts of “his” food as a ...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to treat a few pigs. Years ago, vets in general practice would regularly see a poorly pig and every farm had a few sows. There is an old day book ...

We have developed a strategy to switch to ultra-modern pig farming by 2034. To this end, we plan to build about 12 new modern pig farms; four of them are designed for over 100,000 head.

"Pigs naturally are very clean animals," Stonestreet says. "And then when you add in the consciousness and care that farmers put into raising pigs on a moderate pig farm, they're a very clean animal.

PIG farms in Perak will be fully modernised by the end of 2019, says state health committee chairman A. Sivanesan (pic).He said the state expected all farms to implement the modern farming system ...

The Selangau Pig Farming Area (PFA) designed to house 12,000 Parent Stock (PS) is expected to be completed within a year and will start to produce 150,000 pigs a year in 2027. “The facility will use ...