Biological pig and poultry farming are very different from conventional farming as the housing method allows the pigs to root and explore. In pens being more spacious and straw-bedded, the animals are less aggressvie than their fellow pigs in smaller, plainer housing. HousingHousing animals biologically causes more natural behaviour, especially in pigs and poultry, when compared to conventional methods. Both animal welfare and environment profit from biological farming, two Dutch studies...

He said he gave his fellow students a good rate because he knows the costs of pigs can get expensive, plus his brother is now a 4-H pig group leader. He has learned some lessons along the way, though, like the importance of taking customer deposits before purchasing the pigs. He wants to return to Nevada at some point to produce pork locally. He had 15 verbal agreements to take pigs before he bought them, but the number dwindled once he received the animals. That means he's sold 17 pigs...

I have heard the commercial from the pork industry referring to pork as the other white meat, suggesting that it compares to chicken as far as nutrition is concerned. Hogs are leaner than they used to be due to improved breeding and feeding, but clearly fat content and nutritional value also depend on the cut of pork and how it is cooked. ANSWER: The advertisement is a clever marketing ploy by the pork industry, which is attempting to piggyback on the popularity of chicken. Department of...

The company s permit now prohibits it from buying hogs from farms built after 2002 unless the farms use such methods, a ban that state regulators continue to support. Under those exemptions to the 1997 law that established the moratorium, 73 new hog farms have been built, 25 have been expanded and four were reactivated, state water regulators told The News & Observer of Raleigh. The majority of these exceptions use waste pits and spray fields to dispose of hog manure, both of which the...

Remember the 1,100-pound "Hogzilla" shot in a Georgia swamp a couple years ago? Rumors began circulating a year or two ago that hogs that had escaped from commercial hunting preserves were creating little wild piggy families in a few spots in Penn's Woods. Remember the 1,100-pound "Hogzilla" shot in a Georgia swamp a couple years ago? Rumors began circulating a year or two ago that hogs that had escaped from commercial hunting preserves were creating little wild piggy families in a few...