March 11, 2011

Pig producer Maschhoffs acquires NNP

The Maschhoffs LLC, a family-owned business based in Illinois, announced that it had bought NNP.

The cost was not disclosed.

NNP, formerly called Nebraska Pork Partners, is considered to be one of the 15 largest pork producers in the US Under the sale, Carlyle, Ill.-based Maschhoffs will acquire 55,000 breeding sows and about 80 NPP production sites in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.

The sale will bring the total breeding herd to 192,000 sows, making it the largest family-run hog operation in the US.