For some it was just business. For others the final feeder pig auction at the Sioux City stockyards was one last chance to linger in the sale barn and joke with old friends. The whole auction was over ...

Grains end higher on Thursday with live cattle higher, feeders and hogs lower. DuWayne Bosse, Bolt Marketing, says grain markets rebounded Thursday on technical buying after holding and bouncing off ...

TRIPOLI, Iowa -- A Tripoli farmer has filed a lawsuit against a cooperative, claiming it sold him diseased pigs when he believed he was buying feeder pigs from a healthy herd. William Root says in his ...

Hogs live comfortably on small farms. Depending on the climate and terrain, the stocking rate is between 10 to 50 pigs or five to 10 larger sows per acre. Because feed accounts for about three-fourths ...