Like a lot of food-obsessed people, I love pork. The chef David Chang, whose Manhattan restaurant Momofuku is practically a porcine temple, once declared the pig a “mystical, magical animal.” In ...

For most pregnant pigs on big factory farms in the U.S., each four-month gestation is spent in a tiny crate. The sows can stand up but can’t turn around or take more than a couple of steps. Slats in ...

The hog industry is losing sows—pigs that are raised solely for the purpose of breeding other pigs—at an increasing rate. Reports vary, but the number shared last year at an annual gathering of pork ...

The 40 largest pork producers in the U.S. keep growing despite trade wars, lawsuits, disease threats, and falling markets. A plague of locusts is about the only thing that hasn't afflicted the swine ...

Managing sows so they neither gain nor lose too much body condition between parities should be the ambition of every pig breeder, as this single measure directly impacts on a herd’s economic ...

For the first time in a decade, the largest U.S. pig farmers have cut sow numbers. According to the exclusive Successful Farming Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 40 largest U.S. pork producers, sows ...