Iowa Pasture Pig Farmer Honored as Sustainability and Animal Welfare Leader, Champion for Small Family Farms NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week at the Fancy Food Show, Niman Ranch’s Founding Hog ...

Last January AAA sprang its great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%.

Chris Hoffman has been bringing home the bacon for nearly 38 years. The president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau since 2022, Hoffman originally had aspirations of becoming a U.S. marshal. His career ...

Multistorey pig rearing is rare outside China. A six-storey building known as the “Schweinehochhaus” or “pig high-rise” that ...

ETLAN -- And this little piggy won an award at Landon Farm LLC near Etlan. Farmer Jennifer Sisney takes free range to a whole new level. Her pigs and piglets roam around looser than a worn-out elastic ...

Meat processing companies like Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods figured out years ago they could better control product consistency, minimize costs and squeeze out more profit by owning animals from ...

Barnyard antics served as a perfect setting for the annual Alachua County Youth Fair & Livestock Show, where young agriculture enthusiasts spent almost a week showing off their prize livestock, ...

For nine years, Harvey Haney fought to keep his small Bay County pig farm. Fraser Township, a small community that hugs the Saginaw Bay shoreline, sued Haney in 2016, arguing he was not allowed to ...

While it was alive, the pig had room to stand, to turn around in a circle and lie down. That’s a requirement before it could become pork sold at a California grocery store because of a 2018 ballot ...

In the quiet backyards of many rural communities, a small but important animal has sustained families for generations.

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production. Large-scale operations prioritized a few specialized pig breeds, optimized for ...