6. What’s Down with Bacon?
Iowa Pork 101
Brief History of Hogs
Bacon South of 80
7.
8.
9. How Many Hogs in Iowa in according to
December 2014 USDA Estimates?
20.9 Million
Total…State human
population is 3 million
Today in U.S. — 66.05 million, give or take a few hundred
thousand.
10. This is the font I Want
323,247 934,820 1,353,908
6,034,316
8,266,779
30,354,213
33,512,867
25,134,569
47,683,951
57,409,583
Hogs in Iowa Hogs in U.S.
1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
13. Swine Terminology
Gilt—A female that has yet to farrow
Barrow—A castrated male
Sow—A female that has farrowed
Boar—A mature male
Pork Belly—Uncured bacon