Access agreement
$0 to the landowner
- For properties that support a hunt schedule
- We work the damage in exchange for access
- Vetted guides and screened clients only
- You keep full say over dates and areas
- Removal counts reported to you
Pigmist / Farm pest control
Farm pest control for Texas landowners
Whole-sounder wild hog removal for row crop, hay, pasture and orchard operations across East Texas and the farm towns on the edge of the metroplex.
The scale of it
This is an infestation, not a nuisance
Texas carries more feral hogs than any other state. They are classified as an invasive species, they have no natural check on their numbers here, and they reproduce faster than almost anything a farm has ever had to deal with.
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Feral hogs estimated in Texas
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
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Yearly damage to Texas agriculture and private property
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
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Yearly damage nationwide to crops, pasture, livestock and forestry
USDA APHIS
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Of a local hog population that must come off every year just to hold numbers
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USDA APHIS
A sow can breed at six months and raise two litters a year of five to ten pigs. Twelve hogs on your place in
the spring is a realistic forty by the following fall if nothing is done. That growth rate is exactly why the
removal threshold sits at two thirds of the population per year.
What it actually costs a working farm
The grain they eat is the smallest line on the page. The expensive damage is what rooting does to your ground, your equipment and your calendar.
| Line item | Basis | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Corn rooted and trampled | 12 acres at 180 bu, $4.40 per bu | $9,504 |
| Replant and reseeding | 12 acres at $95 per acre | $1,140 |
| Field repair and equipment time | 20 hours at $110 per hour | $2,200 |
| Hay meadow and pasture restoration | 6 acres at $240 per acre | $1,440 |
| Fence, gate and water line repair | Season total | $1,800 |
| Lost wildlife and lease value | Deer and turkey pushed off feed | $900 |
| Season loss | $16,984 | |
Illustrative model built on published damage estimates, not a guarantee. On the free property walk we build this same table with your acreage, your yields and your repair costs.
Damage we get called about most
- Rooted and replanted crop rows
- Trampled corn, milo, peanuts and melons
- Hay meadows too rough to cut
- Wallowed out tank dams and creek banks
- Broken irrigation risers and water lines
- Fence and gate damage
- Pasture erosion and washouts
- Livestock feed raided nightly
- Deer and turkey pushed off the property
- Disease exposure risk to livestock
Our method
Take the whole sounder
Feral hogs live in family groups. Kill two out of fourteen and the other twelve learn the site, learn the sound of a truck and go fully nocturnal. Educated hogs are twice the work and half the catch. So we do not touch a group until we can take all of it.
Five steps
Free property walk
We map rooting, trails, bedding, water and entry points, and put real numbers on what the damage is costing you per season. No charge and no obligation.
Camera survey
Cellular cameras on bait for seven to fourteen days. We count the sounder, identify sows and boars, and learn the hours they move before anything else happens.
Whole-sounder night removal
A coordinated crew under thermal, positioned on the field the cameras show them using, set up to take the entire group in one pass instead of picking at it.
Return nights
Follow up on the lone boars and the wary singles that break off the group. We keep coming back until the property goes quiet.
Report and maintain
Written removal counts, photos and an updated damage map after every set, then a maintenance schedule so the neighbors' hogs do not move into the empty ground.
How we bill
Three ways to work together
Season abatement
Quoted by acreage and pressure
- Camera survey and removal nights through the season
- Set removal target written into the contract
- Priority response during planting and harvest
- Unlimited return nights inside the term
- Monthly reporting with photos and counts
- Typically low four figures on a quarter section
Single knockdown
Quoted per event
- One sounder, one problem field
- Survey, remove the group, then out
- Good for a first look at the method
- Rolls into a season contract if you want it
Book a call
Pick a time that works
Book the free property walk. We come out, map the rooting and the trails, count what you are dealing with and put real numbers on what the damage is costing you per season. No charge and no obligation, even if you decide to handle it yourself.
Calendar not loading? Call (979) 464-6508, we answer seven days a week.
Service area
Farm pest control across East Texas and the DFW farm belt
East Texas farm communities
Van Zandt, Henderson, Wood, Rains, Smith, Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Freestone, Limestone, Hopkins and Rusk counties.
- Athens
- Canton
- Tyler
- Lindale
- Mineola
- Quitman
- Grand Saline
- Van
- Winnsboro
- Sulphur Springs
- Emory
- Alba
- Edgewood
- Wills Point
- Malakoff
- Trinidad
- Frankston
- Palestine
- Elkhart
- Jacksonville
- Rusk
- Crockett
- Nacogdoches
- Lufkin
- Henderson
- Kilgore
- Gilmer
- Big Sandy
- Buffalo
- Fairfield
- Teague
- Mexia
- Groesbeck
- Center
- Carthage
Outlying DFW farm towns
Parker, Wise, Denton, Collin, Hunt, Kaufman, Ellis and Johnson county farm ground.
- Springtown
- Poolville
- Millsap
- Peaster
- Aledo
- Azle
- Boyd
- Rhome
- Justin
- Ponder
- Sanger
- Pilot Point
- Celina
- Anna
- Melissa
- Farmersville
- Nevada
- Josephine
- Royse City
- Forney
- Crandall
- Kemp
- Mabank
- Scurry
- Midlothian
- Maypearl
- Italy
- Milford
- Venus
- Alvarado
- Godley
- Joshua
- Grandview
- Rio Vista
- Keene