Pork Powerhouses

“When you have an extra load here and there, we can negotiate a price and get them in the door,” says Eric Hogle, director of livestock procurement.

“If you believed the community activists, contract feeding would drive everyone out of the countryside. It was a close call. Iowa almost walked away from this opportunity.”

Pork Powerhouses 2019: With 66,000 sows and a large feed milling business, TriOak is the 17th largest pork producer in the U.S.

Allied Producers’ Cooperative is a Pork Powerhouse.

Looking back over 25 years of Pork Powerhouses reports, a few statistics jump out. Here are some of the most intriguing numbers.

What makes the Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, firm most admirable is that it survived and thrived after the death of its founder and CEO, Bob Christensen.