Feral hogs are a persistent and costly threat to U.S. crop and livestock production, inflicting over $1.6 billion in damages annually, including considerable labor costs.

Arkansas is seeing a major increase in eradication efforts, and in Mississippi, applications are open now for land managers ...

USDA’s National Average Base Hog price was withheld to protect confidentiality this morning, but was shown at $84.62 in the Tuesday PM report. CME’s Lean Hog Index was another $1.22 lower on 8 ...

The spring pig crop is usually more significant than the fall crop, meaning more hogs will be ready for slaughter later in the year, further influencing the price decline in the early spring.

“There’s not a lot legally you can’t do,” said Ruth. Ruth said catching hogs with traps is the most common and efficient way to bring down a hog population. Although it’s more ...

MIDLAND, Texas — Catching and controlling feral hogs isn't easy. The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Department hopes a new type of trap will do the trick. Remote triggered traps have become the ...

"Hog trapping is it takes a lot of patience, because we don't want to educate them," he explained. "Don't want to catch half the group and educate the other half.” Educate them, as in ...