Achieving a long, productive life for sows is essential for sustainable and profitable pig production. While genetics play an ...

In an age when sows become increasingly more prolific, standing sow nutrition and production need to be re-evaluated ...

Advances in a sow’s genetic ability to produce more live born piglets are forcing farmers to look at ways to better support the sow and her offspring. With only 12-14 functional teats and litter sizes ...

Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State University ...

This might make him sound like a romantic, but don’t let his language fool you – his company’s path is firmly rooted in practicality. He’s adopted new technology developed at the University of ...

Animal welfare groups go to great lengths to show us how "the sausage" is made inside the factory-style farms that produce most of our meat. For the past few years, they've armed activists with video ...

Mike Durrant of Bunns Farm, Norfolk, is the Farmers Weekly Awards 2025 Pig Farmer of the Year. Despite not hailing from a ...

Discover when to wean piglets and some of the easiest and best options when weaning your pasture piglets. Piglets born on pasture are able to get out and enjoy the sun very early in life. Whether your ...

The nation's billion-dollar pork industry is now under growing pressure to defend one of the most controversial practices in modern agriculture: raising 400-pound pregnant sows in tightly confined ...