Joel Salatin at his farm where he rotates herds from field to field, where the fare includes porcine treats like acorns and black walnuts near Swoope, Va., Oct. 8, 2013. Salatin is the high priest of ...
Wild hogs are tearing up fields across 15 states, causing rising agricultural and habitat damage that farmers can’t ignore.
If anything is worse than a pasture rooted up by feral hogs, it’s a pasture that dries and hardens after hogs leave damaged areas the size of tractor tires. Freddie Leroux’s damaged pastures need to ...
Much of Brandon Huisman’s small hog operation is typical of how the animal was raised in the 1950s and 60s, when sows were farrowed in small, A-shaped hog houses located in pastures. It’s the way he ...
Dozens of hogs are turning Karl Keller's fields at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains into disaster areas, acre by acre. They gobble the grass to the ground. They dig up the turf, burrowing their ...