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Successful Farming Publishes 2018 Pork Powerhouse Rankings

Successful Farming has published the Pork Powerhouses® ranking of the 40 largest pig producers in the U.S. The table shows that 192,980 sows were added in the past year. That brings the total to more than 4.2 million sows, or two thirds of the breeding herd in the U.S. (Download the table with specific sow numbers here.) [Source: Successful Farming, September 30, 2018]

Of the top 40 producers, 22 added sows, 13 stayed the same, and five decreased. One thing unusual this year is that no new companies entered the list and no companies fell off the list since last year. That has never happened in 24 years.