{"id":274708,"date":"2026-05-01T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:17:07","slug":"feral-hogs-are-invading-texas-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/274708\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral hogs are invading Texas suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Texas has a growing feral hog problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An estimated 3 to 4 million of them live there, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to crops and moving more frequently into growing suburban areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Scott Tong speaks with <a href=\"https:\/\/nri.tamu.edu\/people\/research\/james-long\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Long<\/a>, a pig researcher at the Texas A&amp;M Natural Resources Institute, about why feral hogs are such a difficult invasive species to control and what strategies exist to combat them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment airs on May 1, 2026. Audio will be available after the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas has a growing feral hog problem. An estimated 3 to 4 million of them live there, causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-274708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}