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“The wild hog is very possibly the most dangerous animal in the wild. And he knows no enemies and he knows no fear,” says Hank Berdine of the Mississippi Levee Board in a new video series, Feral Swine in America.

How will Proposition 12 be enforced? If I invest a lot of money to change my barn to be compliant, what’s coming next that I’ll need to adapt to? There are more questions than answers about Prop 12 implementation.

The second round of Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP 2) restarted April 5. Farmers have 60 days to either apply or make modifications to their existing CFAP 2 applications.

The history of wild pig hunts is filled with unusual stories, but the chase for a 750-lb. beast hiding in plain sight on a Mississippi farm ranks as a standalone account. Farming reality outshines fiction.

Reports indicate about 20% of the herd has been wiped out in the latest wave.

Taiwan has begun testing hog herds and putting in place movement controls near where a dead pig infected with African swine fever washed ashore over the weekend.

Senators John Hoeven and Michael Bennet reintroduced the Modernizing Agricultural Transportation Act, bipartisan legislation to reform the Hours of Service and Electronic Logging Device regulations at the U.S. DOT.

Cash-traded weaner pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 30,775 head reported. Cash weaner pig reported prices were $52.81, down $2.10 per head from last week.

A livestock sale in Limestone Co., Texas turned into much more than a sale last week. Chad Walker was ambushed on the side of the road. A local hero, the livestock sale turned into an act support for the Walker family

A wave of ASF outbreaks this year has wiped out at least 20% of the breeding herd in northern China, industry sources said, exceeding expected losses and raising fears about the potential impact in the south.