The Michell family worked hard for two months last fall to plant fields of oats on their 150-acre farm in northeast Georgia. Then, over the winter, a big family of wild hogs — also known as a sounder ...

Each winter, a targeted initiative to reduce the number of feral swine unfolds in the Land Between the Lakes National ...

Georgia has launched a pilot program to combat invasive wild pigs, offering landowners a chance to win valuable traps for removing hogs. Wild pigs cause significant financial damage to Georgia farmers ...

From jumping fences, destroying golf courses and digging up yards, wild pigs — also called wild boars or feral hogs — are one of the most destructive and invasive animals in the U.S. And while many ...

Here’s the thing about wild hogs in the U.S.: they aren’t just a nuisance. These invasive animals tear up crops, pastureland, and sensitive habitats, and they’ve spread into dozens of states with real ...

What steps can Georgia farmers take to combat the growing threat of wild pigs that continue to damage farmlands? This is what a recent study published in Crop Protection hopes to address as a team of ...

Hogs will eat up corn and peanuts that have just been planted, damaging acres of crops in a night. Some years the hog damage is worse than others but it has been a problem since his father started ...