Authorities have recently approved a homegrown breeding system for a fast-growing hog strain called the Lansi pig, helping to lessen China's reliance on imported boars for hog production. The Lansi ...

A pig breeder in Liaoning Province rides a 450-kilogram pig. With China's pig market still restricted in efforts to control the spread of African swine fever, the breeder said he hopes his pig riding ...

With the central government placing more emphasis on food safety and sustainable agriculture, local authorities and companies have taken steps to overcome their difficulties. In Beijing, the ...

Fresh Defra figures suggest the UK pig breeding herd has fallen to a new low, raising fresh concerns over the sector’s ...

Ancient DNA (aDNA) provides direct evidence of historical events that have modeled the genome of modern individuals. In livestock, resolving the differences between the effects of initial ...

Three hundred thirteen-five is a beauty and sure to have beautiful babes, too. Born on March 30, the fifth piglet in litter 313, she’s an elite sow, bred to produce several generations of breeding ...

A Chinese agricultural tycoon has stressed the urgency of making further advances in livestock breeding by tapping digital technologies and biotechnologies and scaling up the agricultural value chain.

When it comes to developments in the pig sector, selective breeding and estimated breeding values are held up as two of the technologies which revolutionised the industry. However, the latest ...

The economic ups and downs of the “pig cycle” are accepted to a degree as a part of pig farming, with margins fluctuating between positive and negative during the past two decades. Deadweight pig ...

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Here's something that should make animal-lovers in FarmVille very, very happy. Remember when Community Manager Lexilicious told us that an exciting change would be coming to the Pig Pen feature in the ...