Amid pork shortage and soaring pork prices as a result of an outbreak of the African swine fever, hog farmers in China are raising bigger and heavier pigs. One farm is raising an herd of pigs that ...

A devastating outbreak of African swine fever has destroyed an estimated half of China’s pig population over the past year or so. Bloomberg notes that some Chinese farmers have managed to increase the ...

Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are believed to have branched off from wild boars (Sus scrofa) through domestication events that occurred independently in East Asia and the Near East, beginning ...