re: Bert to Iowa? He gone!

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In the last 20 years hog farming has moved away from the small independent farmers to big business with huge industrial like hog farms. Used to be very common for corn farmers in Iowa to raise hogs on the side, not anymore

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yea that's pretty much the story for all farming from what I can tell, we used to have 7 family farms in my close extended family, now we have 3.