Tag: hogs

• Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  Argentina: hogs from an overturned truck slaughtered in the highway by thieves

  

  A truck carrying live pigs turned over in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, and neighbors and other cars looted the cargo and in some cases slaughtered the animals in the highway. The accident took place in the access of Coronale Vidal, some 300 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  China's top pig producing province pledges to grow 60 million hogs in 2020

  

  China's top pig producer Sichuan province pledged to produce 60 million hogs in 2020, around levels in previous years, state media reported on Friday, after a deadly pig disease decimated the country's massive pig herd.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  China's hog herd drops to half because of the African swine fever

  

  China's hog herd fell by half in the first eight months of 2019 due to a devastating outbreak of African swine fever and will likely shrink by 55% by the end of the year, analysts at Rabobank said on Wednesday.