Owners Dean and Julie Folkmann walk hand in hand with their 16-year-old daughter, Katie, at the family hog farm in Benton County, near Newhall, Iowa

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As of 2016, the farm has been in the family for 162 years. At any time, approximately 50 million hogs are being raised in the state with just over 3 million people. That's about one-third of all the pigs raised in the United States. One reason: the grain ground for hog food is often taken from the hog farmer's own corn and soybean fields.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).

Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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01/01/2016

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