As origin stories go, this is a strange one. Who would have thought that six farmers meeting up in an English pub in the 1950s would have helped to improve the carbon footprint of 21st century pigs?

Borrowing a page from the dairy industry, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station found that a slow-growth diet meant more piglets and healthier and longer-lived momma pigs.

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a strange wildlife experiment has been unfolding inside the region's abandoned nuclear zone. Escaped domestic pigs have interbred with wild ...

Researchers with the University of Arkansas have found that slowing the growth rate of female pigs before breeding would allow for more piglets and healthier sows. Charles Maxwell, professor of animal ...

It wants its livestock to grow faster, consume less feed, tolerate heat better, resist disease and produce larger litters of piglets—all goals for intensive breeding programs that look years into the ...

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production. Large-scale operations prioritized a few specialized pig breeds, optimized for ...

Experts argue gestation crates cause anxiety and frustration in pigs, contradicting claims of humane treatment.