1.   Cheap grain prices this summer allowed farmers to feed more hogs to heavier weights, putting more supply on the market, traders said.

2.   Farmers are feeding more hogs than a year ago, a government report showed, as cheaper feeding costs and strong pork prices encouraged expansion of herds.

3.   Glover and his siblings often joined them in the fields, picking cotton, gathering watermelons and feeding the hogs.

4.   He contracted to house and feed the hogs, not own them.

5.   Hogs are mainly fed corn.

6.   In June, the USDA reported that farmers were feeding more hogs than a year ago as cheaper feed prices and strong pork demand encouraged herd expansion.

7.   It was eventually used to feed hogs at prison system farms.