BATON ROUGE - Across Louisiana, the feral pig population continues to grow. They can be found in all 64 parishes, and the total number of feral pigs is around 900,000 in the state.

"When I first started this, I thought Texas had a pig problem, not Louisiana. However, when you look at the population estimates for the states and compare it by the land area, we have about the same density of feral pigs as Texas," LSU AgCenter's Interim Southeast Regional Director Glen Gentry said.

According to a recent study by the AgCenter, it found that feral pigs have done about $94 million worth of damage to the state's agricultural operations each year. He expects that number to rise.

A big reason for the hogs' expansion is their high birth rate.

"I'm a reproductive physiologist by training. One day,

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