Nearby farms also raise a few cattle and hogs.
His family lives three, four miles north of town, farming a hundred acres or so and raising hogs.
With a small loan from the local bank, quietly backed by his father, he began raising hogs.
In his region, farmers raising cattle and hogs benefit from relatively profitable prices.
Soon an industrial system was introduced to raise enough hogs to be killed by the tens of thousands every day.
His father borrowed on the farm to raise hogs, but a faulty vaccine killed every one.
The family raised cattle, hogs, horses and chickens on the farm.
In his later years he also raised hogs on an extensive scale.
From 1938 to 1946, he raised cattle and hogs on his farm in New Virginia.
You are getting odds because Minnesota raises better hogs than Iowa.