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 ...

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.

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

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 ...