URBANA, Ill. -- Because weanling pigs do not tolerate great quantities of soybean meal in the diet, alternative sources of protein must be used. Blood products, such as blood meal and plasma protein, ...

Getting newly weaned pigs to eat several times per day is a first step toward profitable finishing. Crack an egg, and you’ll understand why. A 21-day-old pig’s stomach is approximately 2 ounces, or ...

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 ...

Once the pigs are weighed, they are put into animal pens. Corsicana, Texas, resident Hallie Bates, 17, showed a Yorkshire pig ...

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 South African farm worker has described to a court how he was forced by his boss to feed the bodies of two black women to ...

Once a meme, free-ranging swine have become a real problem — one that has given rise to a wide array of potential solutions.