Smithfield Hog Production Division

Locations

Smithfield Hog Production is headquartered in Princeton, Missouri and owns a pork processing plant located in Milan, Missouri.[6] At one time, the company operated 132 company-owned farms and 109 contract farms in the state of Missouri, in addition to a leased farm and eight feed mills.[7]

In July 2021, the company closed its original slaughter plant in Smithfield, Virginia.[7][8]

In February 2023, Smithfield Foods closed its meatpacking plant in Vernon, California.[9][10][11]

In May 2023, the company closed 37 sow farms in Missouri.[7][12][13]

In October 2023 the company shut down a pork plant in Charlotte, North Carolina.[14]

In December 2023 Smithfield ended contracts with 26 hog farms in Utah citing oversupply.[14]

Methane harvesting

Valley View Farm, near Green Castle, Missouri, is a finishing site that houses more than 100,000 hogs at any given time. Half of the site's waste lagoons are covered to allow the harvesting of methane gas.[15] Smithfield also has farms that engage in methane harvesting in Bethany and Princeton.[16]

Smithfield built a connection from its farms in northern Missouri to the pipeline that supplies natural gas to Milan, Missouri. Fuel produced by Smithfield is mixed directly into Milan's gas supply.[17] This project took 18 months.

Smithfield has formed a partnership with Roeslein Alternative Energy and Monarch Bioenergy, to help produce biogas.[17][16] In early 2020, Smithfield and Roesleing Alternative Energy announced an additional $45 million investment in Monarch. This money will be used to expand Monarch's renewable natural gas capture and distribution to at least 85% of Smithfield's Missouri farms.[18]

Smithfield's gas harvesting efforts are part of its stated goal of reducing its greenhouse gas footprint by 25%. This is using the company's 2010 emissions as the base for calculation.[17][16]