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Researchers at Kansas State University are looking at ways that piglets grow during their mother’s pregnancy, hoping to reduce the incidence of runt pigs.

As 2014 sets up to be a profitable year for pork producers, constant environmental management, animal welfare pressures and looming federal regulations bring uncertainty to today’s modern production systems.

Imagine walking into your building and finding lesions on your sows or market hogs that look just like Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). Would you know what to do or whom to call?

A North Las Vegas pig farm famous for recycling leftover casino buffet food is soon going up for auction.

What started as a regular livestock auction ended as a moment that changed one Florida 4-Her’s life.

Protect your herd by preparing now for potential outbreaks.

South Africa’s driest weather in more than a century has destroyed more than 5 percent of the nation’s cattle and pork-breeding herds, fueling food prices and hitting jobs, lawmakers heard on Tuesday.

Fatty acids, well known to have a positive effect on human nutrition, may also one day help to protect pigs from a deadly virus.

The nation’s only ban on meatpackers owning hogs has ended due to a new Nebraska law that allows processers to control the animals from birth to slaughter.

Travis Hood of Hood’s Heritage Hogs in Robertson County, Ky. is working to recreate an old breed of pig with the help of D’Lovely, an Andrus red wattle sow.