The Arkansas Feral Hog Eradication Task Force eradicated more than 12,000 hogs during 2024, including more than 400 in the northwest part of the state. The group was created in 2017 by the state’s Department of Agriculture to fight the pigs that cause more than $1.5 billion in damage to agriculture and ecological interests.
“These include damage to and loss of crops of at least $800 million; injury and transmission of disease to livestock; ecological destruction; property damage; threats to native ground-nesting birds and other small wildlife (including endangered species); and contamination of human food and water supplies,” according to the Department of Agriculture.
The task force currently has an interactive program tracker that records the number of hogs taken statewide since 2020. More than 73,200 have been removed by the task force, with another 8,200 eliminated by the public.
