Louis Bromfield. Even though this pessimistic little poem’s about raising pigs commercially, it has a point that the backyard farmer shouldn’t forget: The really profitable way to raise your ...

A pen with strong fencing is necessary so your pigs can’t escape. For a pasture area, electric fencing also works very well.

However, rural areas are experiencing a unique problem, pet pigs are being dumped and abandoned. Backyard breeding is an ongoing issue, here in Racine County, one hobby farmer has had to take in ...

Prior to 1995, almost all Chinese pig production was from backyard operations. Less than 15 years later, commercial operations that produce 50 to 1,000 pigs exceeded backyard production.

U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon had tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu, ...

Apparently the outbreak, following on 389 samples of pigs, indicates that the highly contagion disease was localized in ”a small production of backyard pigs from the provinces of Sánchez ...