Hog market context near Wichita, KS, with illustrative values and a direct path to GrainBrief source health.
Kansas's hog industry is smaller than its cattle sector but significant. The eastern Corn Belt fringe — Crawford, Cherokee, and Montgomery counties — supports the densest hog concentration. Kansas hogs market primarily to the Seaboard Triumph-Smithfield system via Missouri and Iowa.
Seaboard Triumph Foods (Sioux City, IA — corridor buyer); Triumph Foods St. Joseph MO; Dillons Meat
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