Domestic pigs reproduce through a breeding process that is closely managed on farms around the world. During mating, a male pig, known as a boar, mounts the female, called a sow, in a behavior driven ...

China's National Development and Reform Commission has announced plans to adjust hog reserves and manage production capacity ...

The pig breeding industry’s capacity reduction has been slow, while inventories have remained high. China’s breeding sow stock exceeded 39.6 million heads as of Dec. 31, slightly above the target of ...

In the quiet backyards of many rural communities, a small but important animal has sustained families for generations.

The 27 member states of the European Union slaughtered 227 million pigs in the whole of 2025. That is an increase of over 5 ...

So, do ultrasonic pest repellers work? I tried one to get rid of unwanted guests, and here are the results. Blowing up your house, obviously, is not an option. What else can you do? Well, if you visit ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

News footage these days sometimes shows wild horses crowding dry rangelands in the American West or deer wandering through ...

Pig Hill is built around a local legend, but its ending lands on something far more personal. Directed by Kevin Lewis and adapted by Jarrod Burris from Nancy Williams’s 2019 novel Pig, the film ...

March 1, 2026 is National Pig Day, celebrating an animal that more often than not brings to mind filth, cartoons, and maybe a few bacon jokes. But the reality of our relationship to pigs is far more ...

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against California last summer over the cost of eggs. U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi, a President Trump ...