Chinese hog farmers should not excessively eliminate breeding sows, a farm official urged on Wednesday, after a prolonged period of heavy losses raised the risk of many exiting the business. Adds ...

Pig producer Nicolas De Wilde is located in the French-speaking part of Belgium – traditionally not a place of pig production ...

China importing high quality breeding sows and hogs Country's pig herd decimated by African swine fever More than 150 plane loads of pigs needed - genetics firm Genetics companies jostle for China ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A wave of African swine fever outbreaks this year has wiped out at least 20% of the breeding herd in northern China, industry sources and analysts said, exceeding expected losses ...

China's first hog breeding exchange traded fund (ETF) makes its debut on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Friday, the first of three tied to the country's booming pork sector that is rebuilding after ...

Producer Guy King has doubled sow numbers from 500 to 1,000, and the 2023 Farmers Weekly Pig Farmer of the Year is now ...

“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 ...

LOS ANGELES — A California judge decided this week to delay enforcement of part of a new farm animal welfare law that critics said would cause price hikes and supply shortages for bacon and other ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Mike Williams' auctioneer chant is so fast that, to the untrained ear, it's an incomprehensible mumble with the occasional dollar figure bubbling to the surface. Leading a sale of ...