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Which state leads in hogs? 🐷

1Guess
Which states have the most hogs? Tap them most-to-least.

Tapping assigns 1→4 in order

I bet… North Carolina — I smell bacon!
2Answer
The real order is…
    Iowa has about 2.6× as many as #2 Minnesota!
    📚 Background Iowa has about 24 million pigs — more than 7 pigs for every person living there! All that Iowa corn next door means cheap pig feed. (USDA NASS Quick Stats)
    I bet… North Carolina — I smell bacon!
    3Compare
    Hogs (head, by state, Dec 1, 2024)
    🇺🇸 United States (national)75,075,400 head
    Iowa #1 24,300,000 head
    Most: Iowa (24,300,000 head); least of this top group: Ohio (2,700,000 head).

    Note: measured in head. Only the top states are shown; ranks can shift between years. Only the top states are shown here — smaller producers (and states USDA doesn't publish) aren't listed.

    Where things grow has a reason!
    4Recap
    🏅 Today's discovery
    🏅 Iowa is the USA's #1!
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    : 2024 (Dec 1)
    USDA NASS Quick Stats: HOGS - INVENTORY, 2024, by state (2026-07-12) — Published estimates only. States with unpublished (suppressed) values are omitted.
    ↳ In Quick Stats, pick HOGS / INVENTORY, year 2024 (first of Dec), and compare states.