By APR student reporter Connor Todd
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The Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Program is working to help landowners with a statewide hog problem. The State s Feral Swine Control Program started taking applications back in January. It’s a USDA funded program that helps applicants with feral swine removal. Organizers will meet with landowners today in Bay Minette on the program. Wild hogs cause around forty four million dollars in agricultural damage each year in Alabama. Cayla Mitchell is with the Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee. She says that the Swine Control Program helps out farmers in two ways.