Feral pigs

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources doesn’t have enough people out in the field to keep an eye on everything in nature, so it relies on hunters...

The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s ban on Russian boar and other breeds of exotic swine.Michigan banned several strains of boar as…

A circuit court judge in the Upper Peninsula says Michigan’s ban on wild hogs is unconstitutional. Judge Thomas Solka says there is no way for hog farmers…

A judge ruled yesterday that a McBain farmer does not have to pay $700,000 for keeping a banned breed of hog.But he and other farmers, some who packed the…

The state of Michigan plans to drop hefty fines against a McBain farmer for raising a prohibited species of hogs.The farmer, on the other hand, says he…

The state is asking a judge in Missaukee County to fine a Marion pig farmer $700,000 dollars.“That’s a bigger fine than these great big, huge farms get…

http://ipraudio.interlochen.org/PigsMedia.mp3For well more than a year, Interlochen Public Radio has been reporting on a possible ban in the state of…

The state says it has begun visiting farms suspected of having illegal pigs.Michigan's Department of Natural Resources has banned certain species and it…