The papers in this report summarize some of the results of a survey of 489 Iowa hog producers. The survey was conducted in 1972; it included producers in all areas of Iowa. The Departn^nt of Economics and the Statistical Laboratory of the Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station at Iowa State University coopera ted in conducting the survey. The survey was financed by Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station project 1822. This report deals with hog marketing decisions and practices; another report deals with hog production facilities and practices. The authors of the following papers are grateful to the Statistical Laboratory, to the interviewers who collected the data and to the farmers who provided the data.