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 ...

Farmers have always done their best to maximize yield, whether that be cramming another row of corn onto a field or breeding beefier cattle, but pig farmers in China are really taking things to a new ...

For Belarus, the development of the pig industry is of particular importance. In all regions there are large pig breeding complexes that supply pork domestically and internationally. However, the ...

World's top pork producer relies on foreign breeds Some companies already improving pig performance independently High cost, lack of experience make improvements challenging CHIFENG, China, May 27 ...

As origin stories go, this is a strange one. Who would have thought that six farmers meeting up in an English pub in the 1950s would have helped to improve the carbon footprint of 21st century pigs?

In a year dominated by doom and gloom headlines, two women have quietly engineered a cross-border success story with 13 tiny trotters, a mountain of paperwork, and a shared belief that animals deserve ...