June 19, 2023

Genesus releases list of producers with 100,000 sows or more

Purebred swine producer Genesus has recently published its list of the World’s MEGA Producers (operations with 100,000 sows or more).

The 50 listed companies had a total of 16,499,593 sows in 2022, representing an increase of 635,428 sows from the year prior.

Of the 50 mega producers, 24 of them have headquarters in China. Twelve mega producers have headquarters in the United States, four are in Brazil, three are in Spain, three are in Russia, two are in Thailand, one is in South Korea and one is in Chile.

The leading producer on the list is Muyuan Foodstuff Co, Ltd. (China) with 2,815,000 sows. In 2022, the company produced 61.2 million pigs and 7.36 million were slaughtered. Wens Food Group Co., Ltd. (China) was second with 1,400,000 sows, a year-on-year increase of 300,000 sows. Last year, Wens produced 17.91 million hogs.

The third largest mega producer is Smithfield Foods/WH Group with its headquarters in the US. In 2022, it had 1,225,000 sows.

- Genesus