With a gentle, expert touch, pork industry executive Phil Borgic inspects the sow in the tight metal crate. For almost her entire life, iron bars will hold this mother pig on the slotted concrete ...

Sows are highly motivated to build a nest prior to farrowing, but, given the barren environment of farrowing crates, this behaviour is limited and improperly expressed. We aimed to assess the effects ...

Animal welfare activists, public submitters and the associate agriculture minister are still at odds around the use of farrowing crates and mating stalls at pig farms, amid the release of covert ...

One way to reduce the negative impact of farrowing crates on sow welfare is to limit confinement of sows from the onset of farrowing until the end of the critical period of piglets’ life a few days ...

I need to clarify my article appearing in the May 3 issue of the Agri News. The article related to Cargill and Smithfield phasing our gestation crates. In my article, I was referring to farrowing ...

SPCA is calling on New Zealanders to make their voices heard on the Government’s proposed changes to pig farming regulations, a cruel and outdated practice which would allow the current use of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stock image of a hen from Belgium [Bloomberg via Getty Images] The government is planning to end the use of hen cages as part of ...

Unlike Illinois shoppers, people in California and Massachusetts don’t have to wonder whether the bacon they’re buying was produced humanely or whether the pigs were kept in gestation crates, cramped ...

RICEVILLE | In late May, close to 1,000 visitors had the opportunity to tour Iowa Select Farms’ newest farrowing facility, located northeast of Riceville. The 270,000-square foot, state-of-the-art ...