1.   The grain inventories will show whether high corn prices have forced cattle ranchers and hog farmers to cut back feeding rates.

2.   Although hog farmers have gotten used to being ribbed about their product, they are becoming more and more offended by Congress does.

3.   Among them is Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., a hog farmer and business owner who is facing a tough race against charismatic trial lawyer John Edwards.

4.   Analysts had expected the surge in corn prices to lead to reduced demand from hog farmers, usually the first group to be winnowed out by higher feed costs.

5.   As the large environmental groups count their successes, hog farmers fear this growing national trend could put them out of business.

6.   A local hog farmer testified that just before the explosion he saw a spacecraft -- one shaped like a household funnel.

7.   About two years ago, independent hog farmers began a petition drive to force an election on the checkoff fund.

8.   Across the county, hog farmers are reluctant to take any blame.

9.   But a group of independent hog farmers says that mega-hog farms, some owned by companies that also do meat packing, unfairly benefit from the checkoff.

10.   But other hog farmers who support the pork council walked from the pork producers building to the protest and invited the protesters to lunch.