Facility

Smithfield Pork Processing / Hog Feeding Operations (Tar Heel, NC)

Smithfield's Tar Heel, North Carolina campus houses the world's largest pork processing plant — with slaughter capacity of approximately 35,000 hogs per day. The surrounding North Carolina hog farming operations (Bladen, Duplin, Sampson counties) represent the largest geographic concentration of hog production in the eastern United States. Smithfield's eastern NC operations source corn from the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast grain markets, distinct from the Corn Belt-dependent Midwest operations. A major disruption here (e.g., hurricane, disease outbreak) would affect both pork supply and regional corn demand simultaneously. Source: https://www.smithfieldfoods.com/integrated-production