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Big Business, Hog Farming, & the 1990's Hog Crisis

Harold Steele>LPL Interviews N-Z>LPL Interviews K-Z, Segment 11

Big Business, Hog Farming, & the 1990's Hog Crisis,

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FARM BUSINESS: After big business took over many aspects of hog production and processing, prices fell. In 1998, hogs went to eight dollars a hundred per hundred weight but the cost of production to farmers was 35 dollars per hundred-weight.