A southwestern state is facing a feral hog apocalypse that threatens agriculture, and now the state’s agriculture commissioner thinks has an answer: poison. Texas is being overrun by 2.5 million wild or feral hogs that cause at least $50 million a year in damage to agriculture, The Austin American Statesman reported. The hogs also destroy lawns, flower beds, vegetable gardens, livestock tanks and even Internet, television and phone cables. Not even the killing of 750,000 wild pigs by hunters each year has been able to control the hog invasion. The hogs were brought to Texas centuries ago by Spanish pioneers who turned them loose to ensure a food supply.
As a hunter I've personally seen the damage that wild hogs do to land owners and farmers in the past. Recently i heard of this land owner who had to pay $500,000 to fix his land and make it safe again because the hogs came in and messed it up. I don't know if poison is the right solution; however, I don't see any other solution to control the immense pig
population.
http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/hog-apocalypse-this-states-gonna-kill-2-5-million-pigs-with-poison/
This sounds like a big problem. The solutions will probably be complex in order to control the population without damage to the property owners.
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