Small backyard pig farmers are finding it hard to keep pace with that type of scale. Qiao Yuping, 66, raises about 20 to 30 pigs a year with her husband in Liaoning Province in northeastern China.

Small pig impact trial – ongoing. Weaned smalls reared in two different ways: on sow at £10.04 a pig, compared with rearing on transition feeder at £3.39 a pig F ...

"In China, small and medium-sized farms (those with fewer than 500 head) account for more than 95% of the pig farming industry. It is a common practice on these small and medium-sized farms to ...

Sarah Groom runs a small pig farm and farm stay, turning over 30 pigs per year. (ABC Rural: Tina Quinn)Best method. WA Pork Producers Association committee member Dawson Bradford runs a 1,400-sow ...