A couple's plans to build a pig breeding facility has been put on hold. Kevin and Danelle Caffall, owners of Helping Hands Farm, in Willcox, want to breed pigs to sell to the University of Arizona for ...

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production. Large-scale operations prioritized a few specialized pig breeds, optimized for ...

The Kunekune is a diminutive, short-legged, short-bodied pig with a short- to medium-length upturned snout, wattles (also called tassels or piri piri by Kunekune breeders), and small, semi-lopped or ...

A Maine farm owner believes that the only way to ensure a rare breed of pig survives is to get people interested in eating them. Susan Frank—whose farm is home to dozens of the country’s remaining 500 ...

Chinese scientists have bred new high-quality pig strains, named Lansi pigs, an achievement to help reduce the country's heavy reliance on foreign pig breeds. The new pig strains, bred by a research ...

We'll admit it, Sheep and Pig Breeding in FarmVille can be a little bit confusing. Even after Zynga released detailed explanations (with bullet points and all!), some farmers still don't get how their ...

If this leaked image that FarmVille Feed snapped up is any indication, Pig Breeding is that much closer to release in FarmVille. Though, how a yellow father with a toupee and a purple mother make a ...

A devastating outbreak of African swine fever has destroyed an estimated half of China’s pig population over the past year or so. Bloomberg notes that some Chinese farmers have managed to increase the ...

Not unlike the movie "Okja," in which a company breeds massive pigs to maximize profits, some Chinese farmers are growing larger and larger hogs to keep up with pork shortages. In Nanning, the capital ...