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Nighttime in a native pecan orchard. Wild hogs often come into orchards and groves at night to feed.

by David Hanson From the Farm

The Relentless Menace of the Wild Hog

Martin Mount has taken the same dirt track into his family’s pecan grove since he was a little boy. His great-grandfather worked another man’s pecan orchard, but Mount’s grandfather bought his own property beside the Deep Fork River in 1939. With a cross-cut saw, an axe, and homemade tree poison, his granddad spent years clearing...