Here are 10 charts giving an outline of the leading pork processors and producers in the world and the leading processors and producers from selected countries and geographic regions.
In making collections of data such as this, the editors are forced to make some decisions in how the data is sorted and displayed. The lines between producers and processors can be very hard to distinguish. Likewise, when collecting data on multinational companies, it can be difficult to determine production or capacity in different countries, or to determine the overall size of the company.
For these listings, we chose to display the data for the top companies worldwide as a total of multinational operations. In regional or national listings, our numbers represent activities only within the company’s headquarters country. In many regions of the world, we chose to list the top companies in the leading producing countries rather than listing the leading companies in a region, which would often be slanted towards one country in the region.
We also chose to include Mexico in our Latin American listings, restricting North America to the United States and Canada.
This data represents what we have collected as of October 1, 2014, and represents 2013 production numbers. We are continuing to collect data, and more complete collections will appear on WATTAgNet.com as they become available. Likewise, more complete collections of some of this data can be found in the Market Data section of WATTAgNet.com, and many of these charts are available for download. Registration is required to view and download that data, but registration is free and only takes a few minutes.
As this is an ongoing project, we welcome your feedback. Please direct any comments to [email protected].
