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National Beef Packing Company
Fourth-largest US beef processor (~12% share); majority-owned by Marfrig Global Foods (Brazil); operates large beef plants in Kansas (Liberal, Dodge City) and Iowa; foreign ownership alongside JBS means Brazilian companies control ~37% of US beef processing capacity
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Did you know2023
National Beef Packing Company was founded in 1992 in Dodge City, Kansas, backed by US Premium Beef (a cattle producer cooperative) as a processor controlled partly by the ranchers who supplied cattle — an attempt to give producers more pricing power in a market dominated by IBP and Excel/Cargill. The cooperative ownership model was progressive but ultimately financially unstable; Marfrig Global Foods of Brazil acquired majority control in 2018 for approximately $969 million. This made National Beef the second major US beef processor to come under Brazilian ownership (alongside JBS, which had acquired Swift & Company in 2007). Brazilian companies (JBS S.A. and Marfrig) now collectively control approximately 37% of US beef processing capacity — a foreign ownership concentration in a critical food supply chain that received significant attention from the Biden USDA in 2021-2022 but has not been reversed by regulatory action. The largest US beef supply chain consolidation debate centers on 4 companies processing ~85% of US cattle, two of which are Brazilian-owned.
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