On a recent Monday morning, Sean Stanton, of North Field Farm, unloads pigs for processing at Eagle Bridge Custom Meat and Slaughterhouse in Hoosick, N.Y. LUKAS SOUTHARD — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE ...

Area farmers say a new requirement that pork sold in Massachusetts is produced with humane housing conditions for pigs could make locally raised meat more competitive at market.

The pigs will be slaughtered this week, and the meat will be cured over the winter. Customers, who will pay $3,285 for one pig, over the next 18 months will receive about 30 pounds of fresh pork ...

The Berkshire pig is a neat critter, generally docile. Earlier in their farming career, the Knoblochs farrowed their own commercial sows, but low prices forced them to discontinue farrowing.

Mar. 4—Checotah eighth-grader Rylee Howell tapped and goaded her Berkshire pig into a scale Monday. "She's not going to go in," she said. "Spots and Berks are pretty stubborn." Rylee prepared ...

In a circle of life moment, scraps from the kitchen at Oak Park feed Berkshire pigs in Bondurant. Expect new pork dishes on the menu soon.