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In 2014, a Yorkshire boar (a male pig) sold at auction for $270,000. The pig, raised by Western Illinois University School of Agriculture Associate Professor Mark Hoge and his family, sold for $267,000 more than the second most expensive animal in its class.[3]The Yorkshire, or Large White, was initially bred for bacon but rose to prominence in the lean-meat category through the 1900s. Created by crossing the indigenous white pig of North England with the smaller, fatter, white Chinese pig, this breed is now the world’s most widely distributed.