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How does milk get made? It’s a process that is far more shrouded in mystery than it used to be. Modern Farmer spent two days at Ronnybrook Farm in upstate New York to get an inside look at the relationship between cow, calf, milk and farmer.

Celebrity pigs are frog lovers, entertainers, spokesmen, best friends, sheep herders, family members, and even bloodthirsty mutant monsters. We’ve gathered some clips of pop culture’s most celebrated swine.

A year and half and thousands of jars of pig poop later, scientists in the Midwest still have little idea what is causing pig manure to ignite like a fireball at the end of a Schwarzenegger movie.

Thinking about buying a teacup pig? Just know that it won’t fit in a teacup (or your house) for very long.

How one dead swine nearly sparked an epic set of battles between the British and Americans.

Behind rural noir literary genre.

The National Pork Board issued a statement on Tuesday calling Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus its “No. 1 priority” and announcing the commitment of more than $1 million to research the virus and combat its spread.

One of Japan’s top stem cell scientists is on his way to California to use pigs as incubators for human organs. Is the U.S. ready?

Pig-like humans are stereotypically fat, ugly, lazy, disgusting, sexist, selfish people who take more than their fair share. They are road hogs, ball hogs, glory hogs and resource hogs. Why is the word pig so pejorative?