Smithfield describes itself as a leader in ... The company is reasonably integrated as it owns pig farms, but it also holds relationships with some 4,000 independent US family farms.

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was founded in 1936 in Smithfield, Virginia. As the world's largest pig and pork producer, the company owns over 500 farms in the U.S. and contracts with 2,000 additional independent farms.

Owning farms let Smithfield raise hogs in a uniform, commercial-scale manner, while breeding pigs that yielded leaner meat. The U.S. pork industry produces more pork than Americans consume.

Smithfield does still hold about 85,000 acres of farmland, but Smith said the decision to sell of about 45,000 acres was made to help reduce the company's costs and streamline operations — not ...

Smith said he hasn’t seen any evidence yet that bird flu will jump to pigs ... outbreak began, so Smithfield isn’t taking any chances to keep disease risk low. “We basically take the approach that ...

Smithfield Foods' CEO says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more attractive ever since COVID tore through the industry during the pandemic will help it ...