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We don't all carry crop insurance. I don't have it.

Yeah, she was well furred. Late November prime pig lol.

Say something about Ferrell wild hogs in dnr regs, open year round season or something about carry dieses , well they run off on sight u? Or attack sometimes ? Never to fond hogs. Rember get close be maul bfore an jump out pen

… we’ve had a lot less hogs since the big freeze… y’all should be alright up north.. seems the shoats don’t handle extended periods of cold too well

Kind of like people having a house cat and letting it run outside!
An invasive species that doesn't belong there.
Here in Ohio some idiots , transplanted some just to hunt , now we have that invasive species in a few locations.
Use your head, it's like restocking wolves , be very careful where and you better be able to control them.

Crop insurance doesn't cover my pasture or hay meadow that is torn up from hogs.

When hunting in WI several years back on a military base they had a wanted poster about wild pigs. It kind of surprised me because I never seen or heard of any wild pigs near the place.

Hogs used to be thick here. Now almost gone. USDA trappers have been staying on them hard - and it seems like half the rural homes now have a thermal equipped rifle. I have killed as many as 153 in six months. Killed two in the last 8 months. Have always had to fence my deer feeders. Not anymore.

I think some got out of a farm and they wanted them GONE that is about the time they made an emergency rule shoot if you have a license call for permission if you don't the next year it was in the regs maybe around 2005-2007

What do the farmers do down South? They deal with the hogs . Buy thoes big rounded traps get the son to shot them them donate the meat to a homeless shelter.

They are in Illinois but not very many. The last group I heard of was west of Vermont IL in the hills. After some local people shot a few they were told not to shoot them anymore - then the DNR started those rules mentioned earlier. the ones I have seen pictures of here are not wild Russian boar hogs. They have all been tame ones that got loose.

USDA has an on-going hog eradication program down here. One guy is assigned multiple counties. He is supplied traps, weapons, ammo, etc. They've even shot some from helicopters....but the hogs get wise to that and hit heavy cover fast. They also wise up to corral traps

Swamp hit it…they wise up quick to corral traps. The first year or so we were stacking them up in the trap. Now you have to have a never seen sounder show up to get caught. What’s worse, is just that camera for the trap seems to run them off. I had an entire sounder coming in every night, we moved the hog camera there and they vacated the area.
On my ride through this morning I saw lots of tracks and even pigs ears in the field next to where the camera is. We’re going to bait it up hoping they’re used to it now. We’ll give it a week of feeding then out the trap up and see if they still come in.
You’d think running dogs would run them off, but generally that very evening they’re back on camera. I’ll continue my night treks taking out what I can. Heck, you’d think shooting almost a dozen at one general location would run them off, but the very next night they’re back on camera.

Farmer are rich! I pass by farms and see old tractors in the weeds ,I also see multiple tractors,big trucks trailers .all thoes things cost money! I don't want to hear we're poor.

I've seen many farmers you described file for bankruptcy and have to sell everything.

That’s called broke down and no money to fix. To locate the rich -Look for blacktop driveways, landscaping, and electric candles in every window.

Sounds like you need to start your own farm. You obviously know more about it than I do. Now I need to find that fat bank account with all my money in it. The bank must have conveniently let me forget about it, they don't however let me forget about all the loans they gave me.

The only thing is Savell pigs were raised in a-huts here in Iowa in some very cold weather the picture is of a wooden hut but a lot were metal round top later on, pigs are a very resilient animal they could almost be compared to a cockroach, that and you’re mean to interrupt that poor pig when he is having a cold lone star.

We have a few, every now and then one gets in the news,,,, but really not an established population,,, hopefully it stays that way