Animal Production Industry Competitors

Friona Industries puts the beef in the Big Mac. Founded in 1962, Friona owns four feedyards in northwestern Texas with a feeding capacity of more than 275,000 head of cattle. Its Agricultural Credit division helps ranchers with cattle and feed financing programs....

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... the sprawling King Ranch, to be exact. Founded in 1853, King Ranch's operations extend beyond its original 825,000 cattle-raising acres. The ranch is still home to cattle and horses, of course. However, King Ranch oversees considerable farming interests in Texas and elsewhere (cotton, sorghum, sod, citrus, pecans, vegetables, and cane sugar)....

So where did that steak you threw on the barbecue last night come from? Perhaps it was from Agri Beef, an Idaho-based company that raises cattle on its ranches and then fattens them up on its four feedlots in Idaho, Kansas, and Washington. Its processing plant is also in Washington....

As one of the world's largest poultry-breeding operations, Aviagen Group Holding knows that the eggs might come first, but the chicks are what sell best. Comprised of two working units (broiler/breeder and turkey), Aviagen Group sells day-old parent and grandparent chicks for the production of commercial chicken broilers and turkeys....

From piglets to poults and hogs to hens, Murphy-Brown supervises a growth industry. As the livestock production subsidiary of pork processing giant Smithfield Foods, it is the world's largest hog producer and a leading US turkey producer as well....

Atlas South Sea Pearl (formerly Atlas Pacific) irritates oysters on a daily basis. The firm owns pearling operator PT Cendana Indopearls and has established joint ventures with Indonesian pearl farms to escape the tight regulations placed on Australia's pearl industry....

Fish, fowl, or human, Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) feeds them all. The company, Thailand’s largest food conglomerate, makes livestock feed, raises livestock, and processes and sells the meat from ducks, chickens, and pigs in its livestock division....

There is a sweet story to tell about this food enterprise. Sioux Honey Association is one of the world's leading honey manufacturers, with about 315 members in more than 30 states and three manufacturing facilities in California, Georgia, and Iowa. The cooperative produces more than 40 million pounds of honey each year, including such varieties as clover, orange, and sage....