In an exciting new development, the North Carolina Natural Hog Growers Association (NCNHGA) and Fudge Family Farms have begun requiring all of their member farms to be accredited by the Animal Welfare ...

(Editor's note: Staff writer Tom Rivers will check in regularly in the coming months with 4-H'ers while they raise pigs, a project that will culminate July 22 during the annual meat auction at the ...

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 ...

A lot of pigs live in Duplin County, North Carolina—nearly 2.3 million according to the USDA’s 2007 Census of Agriculture, more than any other county in the US (and more than the entire pig population ...

A couple of observations on the article “From Gourmet Pork to Subsistence Farming.” First, raising pigs may be more time consuming than dry farming beans and Mr. Steele is getting along in years. But ...