Iowa (RI) — A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than 15 billion dollars to Iowa’s economy last year.
The study says the top five Iowa counties for hog inventories are: Washington, Sioux, Lyon, Plymouth, and Hardin. Among those, Washington, Sioux and Lyon counties each have more than one million pigs.
Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is done every four years, identified nearly 52 hundred pig farms statewide.
Among those jobs, the study says 64 thousand are in hog production, 39 thousand are in hog slaughter, and another 16 thousand jobs are in hog processing. Overall, Hall says the pork industry contributed 15-point-4 billion dollars to Iowa’s economy last year.
Next week, a new administration will take over the White House and there’s much discussion about threatened tariffs and the impact on international trade. Hall remains optimistic about the future and the role Iowa pork will play in it.
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