KEWANEE, Ill. — As part of WQAD's Hometown Tours, our crew headed out to Henry County to broadcast live from Kewanee, Illinois. But we need to address the elephant -- or, should we say, the pig — in ...

When formulating diets for sows it is possible to reduce dietary protein by decreasing soybean meal inclusion and increase ...

Of the 75.0 million hogs and pigs in the U.S., the latest USDA Hogs and Pigs Report as of Dec. 1 notes 69.0 million were market hogs, while 6.00 million were kept for breeding. The total inventory is ...

“As you think about the breeding herd, you could argue we have one of the youngest and most productive sow herds we’ve ever had,” says Lee Schulz. Although there were no earth-shattering surprises in ...

BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - China's pig herds will remain in surplus this year despite new government targets to tame oversupply, industry officials said, as the world's biggest pig breeder ...

Producer Guy King has doubled sow numbers from 500 to 1,000, and the 2023 Farmers Weekly Pig Farmer of the Year is now selling 350-400 finished pigs a week from his ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Six planes carrying more than 4,000 high-quality French breeding pigs have arrived in China so far this year, the first of an expected dozens of plane-loads as the world's top pork ...

China's pig and sow herds, ravaged by African swine fever over the past two years, recovered to more than 90% of normal levels by the end of November, the official news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday.