Criteria for the award is that the business be a Chamber member and has expanded or grown and contributes to the economic ...

NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF APRIL 30, 2009 In the past 150 years, Meeker County has developed from sort of a Wild West to a chain of thriving smaller communities. Among the pioneers of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture traps and kills around 1,000 feral pigs a year on Guam, but it isn’t enough to keep the population of invasive swine in check, according to USDA hog expert ...

German pig skulls changed significantly due to selective breeding. Scientists found shorter snouts and flatter foreheads in ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services is once again hosting the “I Protect Pigs” ...

The “I Protect Pigs” contest is closing at the end of this week February 14 th and entrants can submit up to two photos ...

In contrast, the March 1991 breeding herd was stated at 6.997 million head, whereas it came in at 5.980 million head when USDA released its latest quarterly Hogs & Pigs report 10 days ago.

Chicago | Reuters—H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.