South Korea said on Tuesday there had been an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) at a pig farm in the country's largest pig-breeding region, prompting authorities to raise the national alert level ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

For Belarus, the development of the pig industry is of particular importance. In all regions there are large pig breeding complexes that supply pork domestically and internationally. However, the ...

On June 17, the Jeollanamdo Animal Hygiene Testing Center announced that it will conduct a comprehensive inspection for livestock infectious diseases at 29 breeding farms (26 breeding pig farms and 3 ...

Farmers have always done their best to maximize yield, whether that be cramming another row of corn onto a field or breeding beefier cattle, but pig farmers in China are really taking things to a new ...

BEIJING, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Chinese local governments are using tough new environmental rules to shut down or relocate pig farms, contributing to a sharp fall in hog stocks and a surge in domestic pork ...

The first sows arrived in late September at the hulking, 26-story high-rise towering above a rural village in central China. The female pigs were whisked away dozens at a time in industrial elevators ...

Farmer Clay Trainum whistled at a group of young boars from a distance, urging them to greet him on a recent afternoon at Autumn Olive Farms on the outskirts of Waynesboro. “Come on, boys,” he ...

Amid pork shortage and soaring pork prices as a result of an outbreak of the African swine fever, hog farmers in China are raising bigger and heavier pigs. One farm is raising an herd of pigs that ...