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Pigs can play video games, distinguish peppermint from spearmint, maybe even lie to each other. Just how smart are they?

It’s a banner day for FFA students at Broadway, Virginia’s Broadway High School: hog butchering. Scrub the class schedule. There’s a half-ton of live weight to process by the end of the afternoon.

Our guide to finding the perfect porcine pal, whether for companionship or lardo.

Spend your day the best way possible — hanging out with the American Guinea Hogs of Pettitoes Farm. Feeding time is every day at 4 pm ET.

Maple syrup has long been the perfect complement to waffles and pancakes, but the good stuff doesn’t come from Mrs. Butterworth. Enjoy some classic shots of gathering maple syrup.

Iconic ag writer Wendell Berry doesn’t use a computer, so when composer Shawn Jaeger wanted to turn one of his works into an opera, he brokered the deal the old-fashioned way: sitting on his porch on Berry’s Kentucky homestead.

And it's enormous. This year, 703,000 people stood in line to enter the seven pavilions at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris's 15th arrondissement. That's more tha...

It may be over 125 years old, but The Farm & Household Encyclopedia is still chockfull of useful advice (as well as a few things you should never, ever do).

There are still more questions than answers about the recall of all the beef processed for a full year up through January by the Rancho Feeding Corp.