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Keith Massey, a crop farmer and hog producer from Columbus Junction in southeast Iowa, contracted the bacterial disease brucellosis from his sows that were exposed to wild pigs. Under a national wildlife disease management program, Keirn said researchers will collect and test wild pigs in up to 25 states to look for the presence of classical swine fever. Wild hogs roaming through at least 39 states are lately alarming wildlife officials by their population growth in northern states, such...

Baby Pig, sometimes called Big Bertha, weighs in at 283 pounds, and Mayfield said he would be sorry to see this particular pig go, but he was happy to have finally won the grand prize after showing pigs for 10 years. Wallis, 10, has been showing pigs for three years and she had a particular form in driving her hogs, bent over, keeping her eye on the judge, with her whip over the back of the pig. Pigs were divided into classes according to the weight of each pig, with the lightest in Class...

Even though farmers and farming experts know the market is volatile and corn may not stay at such high prices for long, they still see those high prices as a relief for the farm economy, at least for now. Ethanol isn't solely responsible for the high prices farmers are getting for their corn, experts say. Hundreds of local residents have challenged the plant and six of their representatives filed suit seeking to permanently block the plant's construction. Probably the most famous argument...

Around the Northwest, there is growing attention to how the food that nourishes us is produced. For farms animals, it can make all the difference in the world. Paul Shapiro of The Humane Society of the United States' Factory Farming Campaign says reducing our dependence on factory farming practices, such as keeping pigs and chickens in cages their whole lives, might cut food supplies enough to require some modest diet changes toward more grains and vegetables. Paul Shapiro of The Humane...