Weekly boluses of vitamin D3 in late gestation significantly reduced sow mortality in older parity females without altering ...

For most pregnant pigs on big factory farms in the U.S., each four-month gestation is spent in a tiny crate. The sows can stand up but can’t turn around or take more than a couple of steps. Slats in ...

Like a lot of food-obsessed people, I love pork. The chef David Chang, whose Manhattan restaurant Momofuku is practically a porcine temple, once declared the pig a “mystical, magical animal.” In ...

The 40 largest pork producers in the U.S. keep growing despite trade wars, lawsuits, disease threats, and falling markets. A plague of locusts is about the only thing that hasn't afflicted the swine ...

The hog industry is losing sows—pigs that are raised solely for the purpose of breeding other pigs—at an increasing rate. Reports vary, but the number shared last year at an annual gathering of pork ...

For the first time in a decade, the largest U.S. pig farmers have cut sow numbers. According to the exclusive Successful Farming Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 40 largest U.S. pork producers, sows ...