Researchers are increasingly finding that what pigs eat is not just a farm management issue but a public health story, with everyday items from kitchen scraps to plastic-tainted products leaving a ...

As part of a study that may raise ethical concerns PETA has spotlighted in regard to experiments on pigs, researchers fed ...

In 1986 I was told by a friend to meet Fred Madsen. Trained as a biochemist, he somehow started giving nutritional consultation to zoos, which led him into formulating diets for pigs. He was talking ...

AMES, Iowa – Research conducted at Iowa State University is dispelling myths about the practice of breeding pigs to improve feed efficiency, a measurement of how well swine convert the feed they ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers Kaitlyn Sommer (left) and Ryan Dilger (right) studied the effect of feeding style on growth of piglets, leading to insights for both production ...

Washington Farm Where Passersby Can Feed Pigs Is An Animal Lover's Dream Come True originally appeared on PetHelpful. Forks, Washington, is best known for being the locale of the fictional Twilight ...

AMES, Iowa – Initial studies show a fungus grown in the leftovers of ethanol production could be a good energy feed for pigs and chickens. In separate feeding trials, nursery pigs and chickens have ...

In 2022, pig and poultry farmers in the European Union will be able to feed their livestock purpose-bred insects, following the European Commission’s decision in 2021 to amend a ban on farm feed made ...

The Howard (South Dakota) Cooperative Elevator makes a good share of its corn volume into feed for an expanding hog industry in eastern South Dakota. Aaron Jeffrey, a feed mill operator, operates a ...

ONE OF THE many legacies of Donald Trump’s first trade war with China is that pigs in the country now have a more varied diet. In response to Mr Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018, China imposed ...