Wanna shoot a pig? Go West, young man. Wild pigs live in 56 of California's 58 counties, and the open season on wild pigs is 365 days a year. The bag limit is as many as you can kill.
  Feral pigs are a problem all over the state, but there are some limited hunting areas in state forests and wildlife areas. One such is the 2,150-acre wetland in the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area in Solano County. 
  The state's fish and game department is issuing permits to allow for limited-entry hunts as a way to control the population. They are scheduling a drawing for 24 two-day permits, but you need a valid California hunting license, you can only hunt with bow-and-arrow or a shotgun with slugs, and there's a pig-a-day bag limit. You have to apply by postcard no later than February 12.
  I doubt if many Lancaster Farming readers are going to be heading to California for a pig hunt, but the state's approach to feral pigs might be something to think about as the numbers of these pests grow in parts of the East.

     Do my eyes deceive me? No. That really is a Spotted gilt there under the Sumpreme Champion banner last week at the annual gilt show and sale at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex. The show was held a week early this year, because of concerns that visitors to the show might deliver a human-to-pig dose of the H1N1 virus to the stars of the show.  Lancaster Farming editor Dave Lefever paid a day-after-New Year's visit to the show and prepared a report for our edition due in your mailbox tomorrow. Or you can read his story here:  http://www.lancasterfarming.com/node/2731

     I always think I'm something when I climb a silo to take a picture.   http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/base-jumpers-leap-from-dubai-tower/6h1iu15