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.
Auburn researchers study feral hog damage in Alabama
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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Feral hogs cause more than $50 million in damages to Alabama farmers every year, but Auburn University researchers are looking for ways to help reduce that number.
Professors and graduate students at Auburn’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences secured a $450,000 grant from the Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee to remove hogs as well as monitor and prevent the damage that hogs do in Alabama, and show which strategies for hog control are most effective.
The project will involve using drones, water samples and logging observations to better document the full impacts of hogs in Alabama, from torn-up fields to degraded streams and creeks. Funding for the program came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Feral Swine Control Pilot Program that was established by the 2018 Farm Bill.