Pork Powerhouses (2006) - The largest / biggest pork producers
By Successful Farming - This article briefly lists the US top 20 and Canadian top 5 pork / hog producers in 2005/2006, as published by Successful Farming magazine. The article also provides a link to the full Successful Farming Pork Powerhouses Report for 2006.After three years of solid profit in the pig business, you would expect more sow expansion than there is. This exclusive Pork Powerhouses data shows 323,665 more sows in production today than one year ago for the largest 20 U.S. producers.
20 largest pork producers in the United States | ||||||
2006 Rank | 2005 Rank | Name of Operation | Headquarters | # Sows 2006 | # Sows 2005 | Comments |
1 | 1 | Smithfield Foods | Smithfield, VA | 1,200,115 | 960,000 | 995,325 in U.S., rest international. Bought Premium Standard Farms in Sept. |
2 | NA | Seaboard Foods | Shawnee Mission, KS | 213,600 | 213,600 | Includes Christensen, Hanor, TriOak, New Fashion, Eichelberger, Allied Producers’. |
3 | 3 | Seaboard Farms | Shawnee Mission, KS | 213,600 | 213,600 | No plans for more sows. Marketing pork for Triumph Foods. |
4 | 4 | Iowa Select Farms | Iowa Falls, IA | 150,000 | 150,000 | Building finishing barns. No plans for sow growth. |
5 | 6 | Prestage Farms | Clinton, NC | 140,000 | 140,000 | Building finishing barns in Iowa. Shipping weaned pigs from MS to IA. |
6 | 8 | The Pipestone System | Pipestone, MN | 130,000 | 110,000 | Most growth comes from existing sites that Pipestone is now managing. |
7 | 13 | The Maschhoffs | Carlyle, IL | 116,000 | 115,000 | Added one 6,000-sow farm, but removed some old Land O’Lakes farms. |
8 | 9 | Cargill | Minneapolis, MN | 87,000 | 94,000 | Sow reduction due to natural attrition. |
9 | 10 | Maxwell Foods, Inc. | Goldsboro, NC | 76,000 | 76,000 | Plan to build three 5,000-sow farms in Indiana by late 2007..Òr |
10 | 13 | AMVC Management | Audubon, IA. | 75,000 | 65,000 | Includes Natural Pork Production II. Acquired a sow farm in Indiana. |
11 | 12 | Tyson Foods | Springdale, AR | 70,000 | 70,000 | No changes |
12 | 15 | Progressive Swine Tech. | Columbus, NE | 55,200 | 50,000 | Built a 5,200-sow farm. Also adding finishing.r |
13 | 14 | Hormel Foods | Austin, MN | 51,000 | 51,000 | Adding 10,000 sows in Wyoming. |
14 | 16 | Nebraska Pork Partners | Columbus, NE | 45,000 | 45,000 | No plans for expansion, but looking for opportunities. |
15 | 18 | Wakefield Pork | Gaylord, MN | 41,000 | 38,600 | Added one 2,400-sow farm. |
16 | 17 | Hatfield Quality Meats | Hatfield, PA | 36,100 | 41,100 | Exited some farms. Sow expansion planned for PA and IN in 2007. |
17 | 20 | Whitestone Farms | Burnsville, MN | 35,000 | 35,000 | No expansion planned.h. |
18 | 22 | Texas Farm | Perryton, TX | 33,500 | 29,000 | Not expanding at this time. |
19 | 21 | Holden Farms | Northfield, MN | 32,000 | 30,000 | Added 2,000 sows |
20 | 22 | Coharie Farms | Clinton, NC | 31,000 | 29,000 | All growth is internal. |
TOTALS | 3,017,315 | 2,693,650 | Growth of 323,665 sows. | |||
Source: Successful Farming |
5 largest pork producers in Canada (excluding Quebec) | ||||||
2006 Rank | 2005 Rank | Name of Operation | Headquarters | # Sows 2006 | # Sows 2005 | Comments |
1 | 1 | Maple Leaf Foods | Landmark, Manitoba | 116,000 | 118,000 | No sow expansion planned. Still adding finishing space. |
2 | 2 | Hytek | LaBroquerie, Manitoba | 54,000 | 48,000 | Added sow nucleus in North Dakota. |
3 | 4 | The Puratone Corp. | Niverville, Manitoba | 46,000 | 27,500 | Acquired the additional sows. No plans to build, but may acquire more. |
4 | 3 | Big Sky Farms | Humboldt, Saskatchewan | 41,000 | 40,000 | Now completing a 6,000-sow farm. Will grow to 47,000 by spring 2007. |
5 | 5 | Stomp Pork Farms | LeRoy, Saskatchewan | 27,000 | 27,000 | No plans for expansion. |
TOTALS | 284,000 | 260,500 | Growth of 23,500 sows. | |||
Source: Successful Farming |
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October 2006