HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Five Big Island farmers have signed up to join federal efforts in a conversation pilot program aimed at addressing feral pig management. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald (http://bit.ly/1IuwI3Q ) that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced in April that Hawaii and the U.S. territory of Guam would join Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi in the pilot program. USDA official, Shirley Nakamura, said 12 people, including five from Hawaii County and seven from Guam, have signed up for the program. "Our field offices are in the process of ranking the applications that were received," she wrote in an email Wednesday.