This total is less than 1% higher than the population estimated on March 1, 2022. But it is down 2% compared to the Dec. 1, 2022, estimate.

Iowa’s hogs and pigs total was 23.4 million head, up about 1% from March 1, 2022. Iowa’s herd was also down from the Dec. 1, 2022, inventory of 24 million head.

In the last three months, the number of harvested swine was...