Pig farming is essential to global agricultural economies and food security. However, reproductive disorders in sows significantly impact the economic viability and sustainability of the pig industry.

Animal welfare advocates call Canada’s new code of practice for the care and handling of pigs — which commits farmers who follow it to adopt group housing for sows in any new barns built after July ...

It takes an entire day to feed all the pigs reared in the great outdoors on a farm in Denmark, such is the scale of the somewhat unique enterprise. Peter Bruun, 59, and his wife Lene Conradsen, 48, ...

I realize that not everyone sees life as I do. Probably nobody sees life exactly as I do. We are like snowflakes, and science tells us that no two snowflakes are the same. So I accept the fact that ...

Fans of Peppa Pig – oh, and those who are invested purely because they’ve been forced to watch all 400 episodes with their kids – will be keen to hear that Mummy Pig has some news.

Going on vacation requires a lot of effort. The trip planning, coordinating work schedules, finding pet sitters. But once on the plane, it is all forgotten. Kind of like offshore racing.

MONTREAL -- The stink will stay, at least for now, but in a biotech breakthrough Canadian scientists have created a pig whose manure is expected to do far less harm to the environment than the poop of ...

The two pigs on the left are the German refined Landschwein and the German Edelschwein. On the right is an animal that looks very similar to an original domestic pig. Credit: Uni Halle / Markus Scholz ...

Modest pork production growth is expected in 2025, as political uncertainty casts a shadow over global trade, according to RaboResearch’s latest quarterly pork report. It says pork producers are ...

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Researchers from MLU analyzed 3D scans of 135 pig skulls and found significant shape changes over just 100 years. Selective breeding and diet shifts led to shorter snouts and flatter skulls, even ...