Feral Hog Problem Growing In Oklahoma

Oklahoma's wild hog population is a million strong, and booming. So many hogs are running loose that they are costing our state a billion and a half dollars a year in agriculture and livestock loses. Now, landowners are fighting back, on the ground and from the air. They're violent, they're often diseased and they can now be found in every one of Oklahoma's 77 counties, according to George Luker, with Langston University. "They're very opportunistic," he said. "They are very aggressive and very smart." Parts of Charlie Coblentz's 6,000-acre farm near Inola were destroyed as corn seedlings were ripped from the ground just a month after planting. "The hog will root and dig up the corn seed and eat the seed at the bottom of the plant," Coblentz said. The Coblentz family has worked the farm for decades, and said the wild hog problem is just about out of control...more