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Muyuan's pig farm near Nanyang is the world's largest. Its pig barns are multistory which allows for higher density. The farm is farrow-to-finish meaning that pigs taken from breeding to slaughter on-site. Production at this farm is targeted at 2.1 million pigs a year. [6]
He is the Chair and president of the pig farming company Muyuan Foodstuff and is one of the richest people in China. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth was estimated at US$14.9 billion as of September 2023. [2] Forbes wrote that he earned his wealth as "the country's largest pig breeder in the world's biggest pork market". [3]
The world record for the heaviest pig so far is held by Big Bill, owned by Elias Buford Butler of Jackson, Tennessee. It was a Poland China breed of hog that tipped the scales at 2,552 pounds (1,158 kg) in 1933. [14] Bill was due to be exhibited at the Chicago World Fair when he broke a leg and had to be put down. At about this point in time ...
New Hope Group, one of China's biggest pig breeders, expects the country's hog output to recover from last year's disease epidemic by 2021, while prices will start to fall after a rush of new ...
BGG is among about 100 farms enrolled in just such a state-led endeavour to wean China off imported stock and breed a self-sustaining herd to feed its 1.4 billion people. FEATURE-China pig ...
Its 973,000-square-foot meat-processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was said in 2000 to be the world's largest, slaughtering 32,000 pigs a day. [8] Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion. [9] [10] It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date. [11]
BGG is among about 100 farms enrolled in just such a state-led endeavour to wean China off imported stock and breed a self-sustaining herd to feed its 1.4 billion people. China pig breeders go ...
Wens Foodstuff Group, formerly known as Guangdong Wens Food Group, was founded in 1983. [4]In 2018 the company's 1.2 million sows produced 22.3 million hogs. [4] In 2019 they were the largest pork producer in China.