Production
The livestock production segment of Premium Standard Farms involves operations in Missouri and Texas, located on approximately 100,000 acres (400 km2). Its herd size of 221,000 sows can produce about 4.5 million pigs per year; the second largest producer of porcine livestock in the United States.
The North Carolina farms were shifted from PSF to Murphy-Brown after the 2007 Smithfield acquisition.
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