Getting newly weaned pigs to eat several times per day is a first step toward profitable finishing. Crack an egg, and you’ll understand why. A 21-day-old pig’s stomach is approximately 2 ounces, or ...

Feeding pigs the wrong feed at the wrong time reduces production efficiency and increases environmental footprint.

For decades across Europe, human food waste (table scraps, that kind of thing) had been recycled into food for pigs. From a 2013 BBC article: “As recently as the 1990s ‘pig bins,’ into which uneaten ...

As farmers work to install new systems that treat our future bacon a little more humanely, a bigger solution awaits: Re-engineering pigs to live together more harmoniously. In a rural setting an hour ...

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