2023 data Livestock USDA ERS

Hogs and Pigs

Mid-band Livestock receipts from USDA ERS (2023); state ranks below are the same farmgate series Congress uses for Farm Bill scorekeeping.

$28.8B · mid-pack #6/12 · 36% of peak

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Category: Livestock · USDA Code: HOGS

National Value
$28.8B
Annual cash receipts
Top Producer
IA
Leading state
Production
74.2
million head

Hogs and Pigs lands in the middle cash-receipt band

Hogs and Pigs scores $28.8B, between the lower third (<$7.5B) and the upper third (≥$46.1B) of the 12 valued commodities, with IA as the top state.

Production of hogs and pigs is tracked across states in the USDA Census of Agriculture; state receipt rows are not joined on this page yet.

As a livestock account, hogs and pigs cash receipts move with herd inventories, feed costs, and slaughter weights rather than planted acreage alone. Figures follow USDA Economic Research Service Farm Income and Wealth Statistics and NASS production series, not typed editorial estimates.

Questions on this mid-band Livestock

Where does Hogs and Pigs sit on national cash receipts in this table?

US hogs and pigs cash receipts are $28.8B, in the middle third of the 12 valued commodities (between $7.5B and $46.1B). Top state: IA.

Which states produce the most hogs and pigs?

State-level production data for hogs and pigs is published in the USDA Census of Agriculture; this page does not yet join those state rows.

Compare another Livestock account: Dairy Products ($44.7B) · How livestock & program payments interact

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Farm Income and Wealth Statistics

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