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 ...
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 ...
Show pigs are purchased in late winter and cost from a few hundred dollars to well over $1,000. Every day, they have to be fed and groomed and exercised. Their pens get swept and filled with clean ...
There have been concerns among stakeholders as pig producers battle high feed prices. Speaking with The Nation, Managing Director, PigFan Nigeria Limited, Femi Malomo said the cost of feeding a pig to ...
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 ...
Crowds of brown, pink and black pigs milled Tuesday around the show barns at the Jefferson City Jaycees Cole County Fair, some oinking loudly, but most dozing in the muggy summer air as they waited ...