Pity the modern boar: He roams the pen for a sow that's ready to breed and when he's about to, er, take action, a farmer appears with a catheter in his hands. The poor guy has been replaced by ...

When it comes to developments in the pig sector, selective breeding and estimated breeding values are held up as two of the technologies which revolutionised the industry. However, the latest ...

It was back in 1986 when Tavistock, Ont., swine breeder Jim Donaldson sold his first batch of breeding pigs to China. "It was a small shipment of 75 pigs to the province of Jilin," said Donaldson, who ...

After allowing Sheep Breeding to become a feature only used by those farmers with tons of premium currency to spare, it seems as though Zynga is looking to avoid that outcome with Pig Breeding in ...