Top global swine-producing companies

Jun 21, 2024

The list prepared by Genesus offers the top swine producers representing about 20 percent of the global production.

For the past six years, Genesus has been identifying the World Mega Producer companies—those operations with 100,000 sows or more.

Genesus calls itself the world’s largest independent producer of high-health registered purebred swine in the world, owning over 80 percent of all registered purebred breeding stock in Canada. Its sole focus is non-GMO swine genetic improvement built on factors that improves its customers' profitability in sow reproduction, feed intake and growth performance, natural disease challenges resistance, as well as carcass and meat quality.

The global swine industry has undergone immense changes and cycles.

North American producers have seen losses for nearly two years, with little to no profitability gains, which has caused herds to shrink.

In Europe, sow herd size has also reduced dramatically through financial losses and has seen fairly high prices for over a year.

China has seen loss after loss and has observed prices rising much higher than where they once were entering the profitability area.

With such dramatic financial losses for both the Chinese and North American swine industries occurring in 2023, experts feel that the smaller existing herds will create an opportunity for greater profitability over the next few months.

This year's Genesus World Mega Producer list compromised 49 companies in 10 different countries and three other World Mega Management Companies.

Three new entries have joined this year's list, including the first-ever entries of companies from Mexico and Vietnam.

China's Muyuan Foodstuff Co., Ltd. saw the largest overall increase in sow holdings with a 2023 increase of 315,000 over 2022. It is also #1 on the Genesus list.

Fujian Aonong Group, #25 on the list, is also from China, but saw the largest decline in sow numbers, decreasing by 160,000 head from 2022 to 2023.

Also of note, is that of these top 52 businesses, they saw an overall increase of 400,977 sows between 2022 and 2023--and that's even with Fujian Aonong's reported loss of 160,000 head, #18's Zhengbang Group losing 150,000, and #26's Yangxiang also dropping 150,000 sows.

These top companies process over 16 million reported sows, which represent about 20 percent of all sow production on the planet. Genesus has supplied swine genetics to nearly half of all the companies on this year's World Mega Producer list.

2024 MEGA Producer List

Rank	Producer	Headquarters	2023 # of Sows	2022 # of Sows	Difference 2023 vs 2022
1	Muyuan Foodstuff Co., Ltd.	China	3,130,000	2,815,000	+315,000
2	Wens Food Group Co., Ltd.	China	1,570,000	1,400,000	+170,000
3	Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods	Thailand	1,115,000	1,115,000	0
4	New Hope	China	820,000	850,000	-30,000
5	Smithfield Foods/WH Group	USA	810,000	885,000	-75,000
6	Twins Group	China	550,000	380,000	+170,000
7	JBS USA - Seara Foods	USA-Brazil	531,358	538,000	- 6,642
8	Triumph Foods: Christensen Farms (140,000 sows) The Hanor Co. (82,500 sows) Allied Producers’ Co-op(67,565 sows) Eichelberger Farms (62,500 sows) New Fashion Pork (57,000 sows)	USA	409,565	403,304	+6,261
9	BRF S.A.	Brazil	340,000	397,825	-57,825
10	Seaboard Foods	USA	336,000	364,000	-28,000
11	Sichuan Dekon Group	China	333,200	450,000	-116,800
12	Techbank	China	320,000	300,000	+20,000
13	Vall Companys Group	Spain	300,000	260,000	+40,000
14	Miratorg	Russia	280,000	280,000	0
15	Aurora Alimentos	Brazil	263,000	263,000	0
16	COFCO Group	China	250,000	220,000	+30,000
17	Iowa Select Farms	USA	250,000	250,000	0
18	Zhengbang Group	China	200,000	350,000	-150,000
19	Frimesa Cooperativa Central	Brazil	180,000	178,150	+1,850
20	Prestage Farms	USA	175,000	180,000	-5,000
21	Elephant	China	170,000	170,000	0
22	Costa Food Group	Spain	160,000	155,000	+5,000
23	Guangxi Guiken Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd	China	157,000	125,000	32,000
24	Da Bei Nong	China	153,100	180,000	-26,900
25	Fujian Aonong Group	China	150,000	310,000	-160,000
26	Yangxiang	China	150,000	300,000	-150,000
27	Betagro	Thailand	150,000	150,000	0
28	CJ Group	South Korea	144,000	137,000	+7,000
29	Christensen Farms	USA	140,000	140,000	0
30	Tecon Biology	China	140,000	140,000	0
31	Agrosuper	Chile	136,000	136,000	0
32	The Maschoffs	USA	135,000	150,000	-15,000
33	Guangdong Haid Group	China	128,000	150,000	-22,000
34	Rusagro	Russia	126,000	124,000	+2,000
35	Guangxi Liyuan Group	China	120,000	100,000	+20,000
36	Bachoco	Mexico	120,000	New Entry	n/a
37	Greenfeed Vietnam Corporation	Vietnam	116,000	New Entry	n/a
38	Clemens – Country View Family Farms	USA	115,421	105,000	10,421
39	Sibagro	Russia	110,000	110,000	0
40	Giantstar	China	110,000	110,000	0
41	New Wellful	China	110,000	105,000	+5,000
42	Kingkey Smart Agri	China	108,000	108,000	0
43	Grupo Jorge	Spain	105,000	105,000	0
44	Tang Ren Shen (TRS) Group	China	100,000	100,000	0
45	Sichuan TechLex Group	China	100,000	100,000	0
46	Huatong Shares	China	100,000	100,000	0
47	Guandong TINOO	China	100,000	100,000	0
48	Wuhan Golden Dragon	China	100,000	100,000	0
49	Shennong Group	China	100,000	New Entry	n/a
	World Mega Management Companies
1	Pipestone Management	USA	390,682	330,070	+60,612
2	Carthage System	USA	180,400	180,400	0
3	AMVC Management Services	USA	168,000	155,000	+13,000
	TOTAL		16,555,726	16,154,749	+400,977

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