Get introduced to the topic of raising heritage pigs from "Pork" Rhyne of The Livestock Conservancy. Learn about the value of heritage breeds, which were carefully selected and bred over time. Get to ...

If you want to produce your own delicious, chemical-free meat, look no further than the homestead hog. Pigs can be raised on pasture as grazing animals; they thrive on a varied diet that also can ...

BARTOW -- Growing a couple of 200 pound-plus pigs for the Polk County Youth Fair has been a growth experience for a pair of Lake Wales area twin girls with mental handicaps. With their pigs "Gordy" ...

Pigs are fun to raise was the consensus of the Morgan County 4-H contestants at the National Western Stock Show Junior Swine Show on Wednesday. The secret to raising pigs is to want to raise them, ...

I have been an Iowa pig farmer all my life. With more than 60 years of experience raising pigs, I’ve gone through many changes in how I do things. I've raised pigs on pasture and in hog houses built ...

In a rural setting an hour west of Philadelphia, several dozen pigs are living the good life in a big, rectangular indoor enclosure. They laze in cubbies or trot around in groups, activities that ...

Factory farms cause ongoing environmental impacts and can create new pandemics. So says hog-farmer Charlie Thieriot, whose Chico-area company is taking a different approach -- staying small, selling ...

The first sows arrived in late September at the hulking, 26-story high-rise towering above a rural village in central China. The female pigs were whisked away dozens at a time in industrial elevators ...