The headline doesn't do a whole lot for most of you. Quite frankly, me neither, but we have to be first in something. And considering the byproducts: pigs feet, sow belly's, pork rinds, pig snout--well I'd say there's one heck of a lot of common folk are just a teeny bit jealous of what's happenin' in the pig capital of the world.
"Boosted by a record number of piglet births from March to May, Iowa’s June population of hogs reached 20.1 million on June 1, a year-over-year gain of 2 percent and tying a record state hog inventory set last September.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly hog and pig report said the March – May 2012 newly-born pig crop was 5.04 million head. A total of 485,000 sows farrowed with an average litter size of 10.4 pigs per sow".
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/06/29/iowa-hog-population-tops-20-million/
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