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AgFeed’s Chinese operations are focused on southeastern China. This operating footprint is the heart of China’s hog production and allows us to serve key markets. The population of our operating area is in excess of 580 million.

  •  Headquarters
  • Feed Mill
  • Hog Farm

From our Asian headquarters in Nanchang, China we coordinate the activities of our 1,325 Chinese employees.

Our U.S. headquarters is in Nashville, TN and our production system spreads from Colorado to North Carolina. Currently this system produces approximately 1.3 million market hogs annually and employs 228 people.

  •  Headquarters
  • Finishing System
  • Feed Mill
  • Hog Farm

In our animal nutrition business we operate 5 feed mills.  We have exclusive distribution agreements with over 1,800 independently owned retail stores and directly serve over 900 commercial hog farms.

We have received “Green Certification” from the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China for our premix products under the brand label “BEST”.  This means that these products are safe, environmentally friendly, and can effectively promote the healthy growth of pigs.  According to Chinese government regulations pork can only be accredited, as “green” if it has been produced using government certified “green” feed.  This “Green Certification” has laid the foundation for our hog farms to supply hogs for “green” pork products.

Our mills have capacity of 156,000 tons based upon our current mix of pre-mix and bagged complete feeds and in 2009 delivered 117,000 tons of feed.

Our 21 legacy Chinese farms, purchased in 2007 & 2008, are spread throughout southeastern China.  These farms have annual production capacity of 330,000 - 350,000 based on a sow base of 19,000.  In March of 2011 we stocked the first of our western style farms in Dahua.  Initial production will reach market in the spring of 2012.  Our current plans for the development of these western-style farms call for farms housing 50,000 breeding sows with annual production capacity of 1,200,000 market hogs by 2016.

During 2010 we have decided to move forward with the final step of our strategy of deploying a fully integrated hog production system.  We plan to develop harvest facilities to process the hogs that will be produced at our Dahua and Xinyu production pods.  The opening of these facilities and their scale will be planned to meet the production output of our farms in Dahua and Xinyu.