Researchers are increasingly finding that what pigs eat is not just a farm management issue but a public health story, with everyday items from kitchen scraps to plastic-tainted products leaving a ...

"While their full impact is not yet known, they are not harmless." Scientists uncover troubling connection after feeding pigs ...

AMES, Iowa – Research conducted at Iowa State University is dispelling myths about the practice of breeding pigs to improve feed efficiency, a measurement of how well swine convert the feed they ...

In 1986 I was told by a friend to meet Fred Madsen. Trained as a biochemist, he somehow started giving nutritional consultation to zoos, which led him into formulating diets for pigs. He was talking ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers Kaitlyn Sommer (left) and Ryan Dilger (right) studied the effect of feeding style on growth of piglets, leading to insights for both production ...

The Howard (South Dakota) Cooperative Elevator makes a good share of its corn volume into feed for an expanding hog industry in eastern South Dakota. Aaron Jeffrey, a feed mill operator, operates a ...

Washington Farm Where Passersby Can Feed Pigs Is An Animal Lover's Dream Come True originally appeared on PetHelpful. Forks, Washington, is best known for being the locale of the fictional Twilight ...

In 2022, pig and poultry farmers in the European Union will be able to feed their livestock purpose-bred insects, following the European Commission’s decision in 2021 to amend a ban on farm feed made ...

A TikToker claims he was fired from his job after he “spread the truth” about what goes into pig feed. TikToker @gmfmusik, who identifies as Kash Moore, shared a series of videos starting in June, ...

ONE OF THE many legacies of Donald Trump’s first trade war with China is that pigs in the country now have a more varied diet. In response to Mr Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018, China imposed ...