As many as 800 farmers have got out of pig production in recent years, while many of those remaining are depending on extended credit from banks and feed companies.

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Researchers implanted 72 embryos to get the five piglets born in March, and Xena was the only pig born out of more than 100 cloning attempts.

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If it's cheaper to control methane by fixing a pig farm than by squeezing the last gram of pollution out of a German chemical factory, let the factory pay the pig farmer to control methane.

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The whole town had turned out, thousands upon thousands of fans wearing pig hats and yelling Sou-ee, sou-ee, pig, pig, pig.

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Meanwhile, Google invested in the power of pig poop and researchers rolled out a new inexpensive, powerful, and lightweight jelly battery that could one day power laptops and electric vehicles.

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Elsewhere, at the Anglesey Show, NFU Cymru said pig farmers were struggling to survive and that many might be out of business because of "rocketing feed costs and cheaper foreign imports".

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In Germany, where people pig out on bratwurst and don't seem to slam away a whole lot of salad, the economy is thriving.

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Two man-sized llamas - one brown called Louis, one white called Rupert - unnervingly stare me out as I wander past a Gloucester Old Spot pig snuffling among the apples at the base of a tree.

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