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Indiana 5th in hog cash receipts

When it comes to cash receipts from marketing of hogs and pigs, Indiana ranks 5th (Iowa is 1st), with cash receipts totaling $834 million in 2009, a drop of 9 percent from 2008. Nationally, cash receipts of hogs and pigs totaled $14.1 billion, down 10 percent from a year earlier.

Indiana marketed 1.798 billion pounds of pork last year, down slightly from 2008, 32.7 billion pounds of pork were produced nationally.