Farm raised or wild? I assume farm raised only, but am wondering now about the wild hogs we’ve heard about that are slowly migrating north in the US.
When Hurricane Florence hit the Carolina’s….a bunch of the pig shit overflowed from their waste lagoons, and the entire area smelled awful for weeks.
That large dot in Oklahoma is my mother in law
The Pewter Package has the least amount of hogs, not no hogs, it’s still 10-12 hogs, depending on the availability of the hogs. Now the Hog Package obviously has the most hogs. What were you thinking?
I’m pretty certain there aren’t 1000 hogs on Long Island. Maybe 1-10 in a petting zoo someplace.
Wow, pretty embarrassing for Arkansas.
Iowa has 3 million people and 8x as many hogs and pigs. It used to be 20 years ago that every couple of miles in rural Iowa, you would smell local hog farms. I guess they’ve become big corporate hog farms, because I rarely see/smell them now.
How similar in size or population are counties? Is this just a map of where counties are small? I suppose not with dots ranging over three orders of magnitude!
Occasionally trucks hauling dead hogs will overturn and the rotting bodies will spill out onto the road. The smell is like if you collected a decade of tonsil stones.
But how many of those hogs have been cranked?
Mississippi definitely has a lot of hogs
This is why the last 50 or so miles of I-40 before you get to Wilmington are the worst smelling place you’ll ever encounter.
![[OC] Number of Hogs by County in the US](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/vai5tob66ale1-1920x1024.jpeg)
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Data:Â [https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/#192AC790-6279-32C2-9483-94F716CC6D81](https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/#192AC790-6279-32C2-9483-94F716CC6D81)
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Farm raised or wild? I assume farm raised only, but am wondering now about the wild hogs we’ve heard about that are slowly migrating north in the US.
When Hurricane Florence hit the Carolina’s….a bunch of the pig shit overflowed from their waste lagoons, and the entire area smelled awful for weeks.
That large dot in Oklahoma is my mother in law
The Pewter Package has the least amount of hogs, not no hogs, it’s still 10-12 hogs, depending on the availability of the hogs. Now the Hog Package obviously has the most hogs. What were you thinking?
https://preview.redd.it/km59x191kale1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c734acf785691a3fa2b604df6ed91afa504ffa3
[source](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/operational-wildlife-activities/feral-swine/distribution)
I’m pretty certain there aren’t 1000 hogs on Long Island. Maybe 1-10 in a petting zoo someplace.
Wow, pretty embarrassing for Arkansas.
Iowa has 3 million people and 8x as many hogs and pigs. It used to be 20 years ago that every couple of miles in rural Iowa, you would smell local hog farms. I guess they’ve become big corporate hog farms, because I rarely see/smell them now.
How similar in size or population are counties? Is this just a map of where counties are small? I suppose not with dots ranging over three orders of magnitude!
The big spot in NC developed because the big hog operators didn’t find effective opposition from the local citizens, who are predominately poor and Black. The situation is one of the prominent [environmental racism stories ](https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/the-sinister-hog-industry-of-eastern-north-carolina/)in the US.
I can smell this from here…
This will always remind me of this
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/EKPLInCHDC
We already lost Canada and Mexico to the hogs.
Les Nessman would be so proud.
I could handle 30-50 feral hogs but this is ridiculous
Read all about Austin Frerick’s wonderful work Barons which discusses the consolidation of hog farms in Iowa [The Hog Barons](https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22344953/iowa-select-jeff-hansen-pork-farming)
Guess they haven’t seen the chicks in New Jersey
Living in Duplin county for +1 decade, you can smell it
It’s the data behind one of my favorite post from Tumblr.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/iPQBmNJ9rB
Occasionally trucks hauling dead hogs will overturn and the rotting bodies will spill out onto the road. The smell is like if you collected a decade of tonsil stones.
But how many of those hogs have been cranked?
Mississippi definitely has a lot of hogs
This is why the last 50 or so miles of I-40 before you get to Wilmington are the worst smelling place you’ll ever encounter.
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