Jeff Seabaugh’s confinement operation in Montgomery County, Ill., finishes about 20,000 hogs each year. They arrive at 3 weeks old and are trucked to market some five months later when they’ve reached 250 to 300 pounds. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

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