If you want to produce your own delicious, chemical-free meat, look no further than the homestead hog. Pigs can be raised on pasture as grazing animals; they thrive on a varied diet that also can ...

Small, cute pigs turn into huge pork chops just over the summer. We are a family of meat eaters, and with 3 growing boys I am proud and relieved to be able to provide a source of good meat for their ...

BARTOW -- Growing a couple of 200 pound-plus pigs for the Polk County Youth Fair has been a growth experience for a pair of Lake Wales area twin girls with mental handicaps. With their pigs "Gordy" ...

Adam Deal stands at the edge of the cedar woods and lets loose a series of staccato yelps. Ten of his pigs have gone missing, and that's no small thing. That's roughly a ton of pork, loose on the hoof ...

I have been an Iowa pig farmer all my life. With more than 60 years of experience raising pigs, I’ve gone through many changes in how I do things. I've raised pigs on pasture and in hog houses built ...

“The pigs are being shipped from the Midwest or the Southeast and the feed is bought on the open market. A pig eats three times its weight in feed, and that feed is coming from Argentina, Brazil, ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a continuing series on Nettle Valley Farm. SPRING GROVE, Minn. ― Dayna Burtness and Nick Nguyen make up the minds and hands behind Nettle Valley Farm, where from ...

Much of Brandon Huisman’s small hog operation is typical of how the animal was raised in the 1950s and 60s, when sows were farrowed in small, A-shaped hog houses located in pastures. It’s the way he ...