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Yahoo! Finance
06-19-2009, 09:20 AM
<b>Yahoo! Finance: Commodity News</b>

Marty Malecek got a business degree intending to take over the Minnesota hog farm that his father started nearly 20 years ago. Instead, they are selling their 1,700 hogs and auctioning off land after it became clear that they could no longer cover their costs.

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