{"id":6526,"date":"2025-02-16T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-u-s-ranchers-and-farmers-are-alarmed-about-canadas-destructive-super-pigs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:46:18","slug":"why-u-s-ranchers-and-farmers-are-alarmed-about-canadas-destructive-super-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-u-s-ranchers-and-farmers-are-alarmed-about-canadas-destructive-super-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why U.S. ranchers and farmers are alarmed about Canada&#8217;s destructive &#8220;super pigs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Near Melfort, Saskatchewan<\/em> \u2014 As the sun sets on the Canadian Prairies, the search begins for one of North America&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/super-pigs-hogs-razorbacks-invasive-canada\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">most destructive animals<\/a><\/span>, a fast-growing population of wild hogs that biologists call &#8220;super pigs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ryan Brook, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan&#8217;s College of Agriculture and Resources, has been tracking them for years. He says they&#8217;re in the search area for sure. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No question,&#8221; Brook told CBS News. &#8220;And like, lots of them, not just two, three, there&#8217;s a lot of pigs out there. It&#8217;s kind of mildly alarming just how many pigs there are around us right now.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These super pigs have American border states on guard. Experts say they pose a multibillion-dollar threat to the U.S. economy if they ever cross from Canada into the U.S.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brook, one of Canada&#8217;s leading authorities on super pigs, calls them an &#8220;ecological trainwreck.&#8221; They&#8217;re crossbreeds \u2014 wild boars deliberately bred with domestic pigs. They&#8217;re big, smart and prolific breeders. And their population is now spreading out of control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s two challenges in Canada,&#8221; Brook explains on why they have become so difficult to eradicate. &#8220;One is their biology makes them very, very hard to get rid of. They reproduce faster than you can shoot them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They will eat anything to survive, according to Brook. They tear up land and reproduce quickly, with devastating consequences to ranchers and farmers. <\/p>\n<p>For Saskatchewan farmers fed up with the damage, Alain Guillet is the man they call. He catches and kills nearly five super pigs a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve eaten that&#8217;s of value off of it, so he&#8217;s lost all this,&#8221; Guillet said as he showed CBS News farmland which was ravaged by the super pigs. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As these populations get bigger and bigger, we&#8217;re going to see more crop damage,&#8221; Brook explains. &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna see potential disease spread. These pigs can spread disease to humans, to pets, to wildlife, and to livestock.&#8221; \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Americans have reason to worry. Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And they can be aggressive toward humans. A woman in Texas was killed by wild pigs in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Nutter, a fourth-generation rancher near Sweetgrass, Montana, keeps a watchful eye out for trespassers. Her ranch is right on the Canadian border. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So here&#8217;s the border fence in between us and Canada, just an old barbed-wire fence that I repair in the summer,&#8221; Nutter shows CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You look at all the damage&#8230;the billions of dollars of damage that those pigs do down south, and the damage that they&#8217;re doing up in Canada,&#8221; Nutter adds. &#8220;We can&#8217;t afford them\u2026It already costs, you know, so much for farm equipment. So much for hay, so much for diesel, we can&#8217;t afford pigs.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Montana has launched a &#8220;Squeal on Pigs&#8221; campaign, urging anyone who has seen feral swine to alert officials.<\/p>\n<p>Brook believes it is not if the super pigs spill over the border, but when. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Well, this is what I&#8217;ve been warning for now into 15 years,&#8221; Brook said. &#8220;And warning anybody who would listen that this is coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     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