They live next to a mountain of free pig food and never have to worry about the rocketing CPI, which may be making other pig farmers feel the pinch. They just get free or almost free food for their ...

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Getting newly weaned pigs to eat several times per day is a first step toward profitable finishing. Crack an egg, and you’ll understand why. A 21-day-old pig’s stomach is approximately 2 ounces, or ...

French animal feed production modestly grew in 2025, reaching 18.88 million tons – a 1.1% year-on-year increase. Those data ...

For decades across Europe, human food waste (table scraps, that kind of thing) had been recycled into food for pigs. From a 2013 BBC article: “As recently as the 1990s ‘pig bins,’ into which uneaten ...

First, thank you for being an ardent reader of Smart Harvest. I am sure many other pig farmers are going through the feeding challenge you have highlighted. In pig-rearing, feeding gobbles 80 per cent ...