Though lower feed costs in 2024 have provided opportunities for profitability, hog producers have a long way to go to make up for their 2023 losses, when farrow-to-finish operations lost $31 per head.

He stressed it was important to distinguish between the area of the whole pen (the footprint) and the free area for the sow.

GETTYSBURG, S.D. — In a world where hog production is largely an indoor sport, one family of pork pros still plays the game like it was originally played — outdoors “We do it the old way,” says Dolan ...

The government is planning to end the use of hen cages as part of a raft of proposals to improve animal welfare standards in England. The measures also include moving away from the use of pig ...

There is a lot of talk in the industry about “flexible farrowing” – systems that allow temporary confinement of pregnant and birthing sows – with those in favour seeing it as a positive welfare ...