re: Wild hogs chomp and stomp their way through $90 million worth of Louisiana crops

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What?

As to the rest of the article, how do we fix it?

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You incentivize killing the hogs. The only people with direct skin in the game are already fighting the war, but it isn't enough. Others aren't motivated enough to keep up the pace needed to curb the problem. There are historical accounts of ridding an ecosystem of invasive, destructive species, but it is usually a complicated, drawn out, and expensive process.

Apocalypse Sow: Can Anything Stop the Feral Hog Invasion?

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There are now at least 35 states with wild pig communities: California recently relaxed restrictions around hunting its growing population, and in Florida, where pigs have been spotted in every county, panthers feast upon them. Humans have, as yet, found no way to kill feral pigs fast enough to keep up with their profound fecundity. It’s a problem of our own making. Over thousands of years, humans in Europe and beyond bred pigs to achieve fertility younger and to have more piglets every year. “We created an animal that was capable of doing exactly what it’s doing,” Tomecek said. A sow as young as five or six months old can conceive, on average, four to six piglets, and Texas Wildlife Services typically observes sows delivering a litter every seven months for the duration of their reproductive life spans—a volume of piglets that inspires an involuntary Kegel. DNA tests show that litters often reflect multiple paternity, in which different piglets in the same litter have been fathered by different boars. Like a virus that is infectious well before symptoms appear, pig populations explode so quickly that landowners often fail to recognize they have a problem in time to swiftly contain it.

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Many look hopefully, or at least curiously, to a research team at Auburn University, which is working to develop immunocontraception for pigs. That team faces the same strictures of any contraceptive targeting an invasive species, however: either it must be engineered to affect only wild pigs or it must be delivered using a method that ensures no other wildlife is likely to consume it. Pigs could be caught and hand-injected with a contraceptive, Tomecek said. “The argument is then: Why would I let them go?”

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They make a great sausage, if they are big enough you can get a rack of ribs

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Anything over 70 pounds is disgusting

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Sorry to take this on a tangent, but am I missing something? How would this not be allowed, but picking up litter on the side of the road is?

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Prisoners at Angola have been farm and livestock workers since it opened essentially.

I mean, it's called 'The Farm' for a reason.

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how do we fix it

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The wolf is the wild boar's main predator in most of its natural range except in the Far East and the Lesser Sunda Islands, where it is replaced by the tiger and Komodo dragon respectively.

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Sounds like you baws need tigers and Komodo dragons.

Open season year round no restrictions
No license to hunt them

Simply not true. We killed 6 this year on our lease. The biggest being almost 200 lbs, and the smallest about 80. The meat in everyone of them was good. Larger boars meat can get pretty disgusting, for sure, but your statement is very false.

I have a guy a couple miles from me that hunts wild hogs with dogs. He has some curs he uses as chase dogs and then a pit bull he uses as a catch dog. He has to put body armor on the pit bull.

Anyway, he uses no firearms. Just ropes to wrangle the wild hog then a knife in the throat to kill it.

I never would have believed how crazy it was if I hadn't gone with him once. Talk about some crazy Okie fun.

I read an article several years ago about an Alabama university developed a "poison" for hogs that was not harmful to anything else. I think it was a salt/sodium based stuff the pigs liver could not metabolize. It was super cheap and 100% effective. Pig basically went to sleep and never woke up.

Never heard about it again. My guess is it was too effective? Anyone else recall this?