There’s a lot a researcher can learn, it turns out, from studying some cells from a common farm pig. Assembling the genome, or DNA letters, of a domestic Duroc pig named T.J. Tabasco and comparing it ...

HALSTEAD, Kan. (KWCH) - A family near Halstead is looking for one of their portly pets. “Big Man” weighs nearly 260 pounds. He’s reddish brown and has floppy ears, one with a Harvey County 4-H tag, ...

Pig’s on pasture is possible. Our Duroc Pig’s are pastured from the time their weaned (approx. 6 week’s old), until there are taken to the processor. Their have been allot of 100% grass-fed Pig’s ...

NICOLETT, Minn. — While COVID-19 nudged many livestock producers into branded meat marketing, one family – the Comparts of Nicollet — have been at it for 20 years. Compart Family Farms Premium Duroc ...

Teagan Pfautz was a little nervous going into the sales arena of the Pennsylvania Farm Show under the eyes of thousands of spectators, but he tried not to be too anxious at the chance of being named ...

What can knowing the sequence of all the DNA in pigs tell us about human diseases? Plenty, says Lawrence Schook. He heads an international consortium to sequence the pig genome that is announcing its ...

We report the sequencing at 131× coverage, de novo assembly and analyses of the genome of a female Tibetan wild boar. We also resequenced the whole genomes of 30 Tibetan wild boars from six major ...