Left to proper: Tom Stinson, Genesus US Director of Gross sales, Jim Lengthy, President-CEO Genesus, Corey Oswald, COO Eichelberger Farms, Julio Quiroz, Sow Manufacturing Supervisor Eichelberger Farms, and Hayden Williams, Nutritionist Eichelberger Farms
Eichelberger Farms has 62,500 sows and is without doubt one of the biggest family-owned hog operations in america. Eichelberger Farms had its beginnings in 1966 when Dave Eichelberger purchased 4 pregnant sows. He persisted so as to add structures, and via 1974, he was once as much as 400 sows and two sons. All over the rest of the 1970’s the addition of extra structures on the house farm introduced him as much as 800 sows. Up till the 1990’s, he bought many of the pigs as feeder pigs each Wednesday on the Kalona Gross sales Barn. In 1993, he signed his first completing contract with a neighborhood farmer to start completing out extra pigs to be bought at marketplace weight. Additionally, throughout the 1990’s, he started development extra sow farms, in addition to taking over some contract sow farms, and was once as much as 2,400 sows via 1997. By way of 2015, Eichelberger Farms was once as much as 40,000 sows and had outgrown the place of work on the feed mill on the town, so a brand new place of work development was once built at the east fringe of Wayland, Iowa.
In 2003, Eichelberger Farms joined with a number of different manufacturers to shape Triumph Meals. Eichelberger Farms is a part of Triumph Meals which has 435,000 sows in overall between the 5 firms. Triumph Meals processes 5.2 million hogs every year.
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