Red Wattle hogs are among the struggling livestock breeds that a small group of dedicated farmers and ranchers are working to preserve. Join an editor on her visit to two local heroes (and relatives) ...

Robertson County has the smallest population of any county in the state of Kentucky, and it's the only one, word has it, without a stoplight. So it's an unlikely place to find a campaign to keep the ...

PIG TALE: The nearly extinct Red Wattle pig has been making a comeback, thanks to breeders like Tyler De Francisco of Sugar Creek Meats in Leicester. Photo by Sarah Green. At first glance, the Red ...

What makes a pig a heritage hog? It’s got history. Falling Sky Farm in Marshall, which is supplying swine to the Heritage Hog Roast, raises a crossbreed of a Berkshire and a Red Wattle. The Berkshire ...

It’s feeding time inside a muddy pig pen as seven hungry hogs descend on cattle rancher Megan Brown. Brown stands 5-foot-4, and it wouldn’t take much for one of the 200-pound hogs to take her down.

His hands on the steering wheel of an off-road utility vehicle, Larry Barton bounces along a few of Indian Mountain Ranch’s trails looking for brown-striped piglets. This is his ranch, so the area—a ...

LUCEDALE, MS (WLOX) - A rare breed of hog is being raised on a farm just outside of Lucedale. The meat from the animal is considered a delicacy, and the farm owner is living a dream “We have about 24 ...

Down a dirt road, amid rolling hills of alfalfa, Larry and Madonna Sorell’s 40-acre spread looks, smells and sounds like any other Kansas homestead. The weathered wooden farmhouse. The whiff of manure ...