Animal Production Industry Overview

Companies that breed, produce, raise, and sell animals for human consumption and/or as working animals on farms.

Full Animal Production Industry Description

Increased Concentration, Specialization

Large commercial animal feeding operations have become so efficient at raising animals that smaller operators can't compete based solely on price. Just 10,000 large farms now hold 30 percent of all beef cattle; only 2,000 farms hold 50 percent of all hogs. Large hog farms increasingly specialize in a single stage of production, lowering operating costs and making it difficult for independent farrow-to-finish operations to compete.

Full Animal Production Industry Trends

• Friona Industries, L.P.
• King Ranch, Inc.
• Agri Beef Co.

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Animal Production maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

Full Animal Production Industry Codes

• American Egg Board
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  
• International Dairy Foods Association
  

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