Using nutrient-rich coconut water to artificially inseminate female pigs could improve breeding and meat quality, a project carried out in Uganda has found. Uganda has the highest demand for pork in ...

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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.

Domestic pigs reproduce through a breeding process that is closely managed on farms around the world. During mating, a male pig, known as a boar, mounts the female, called a sow, in a behavior driven ...

Farmers have always done their best to maximize yield, whether that be cramming another row of corn onto a field or breeding beefier cattle, but pig farmers in China are really taking things to a new ...

This photo taken on Sept. 7, 2026 shows a pig-breeding center in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province. The pig-breeding ...