As our company grew, we recognized the opportunity to improve our company’s sustainability and increase quality and safety assurance for consumers. To achieve these aspirations we needed to expand our operation across the pork value chain – from farm to fork. In 2006, we became the largest shareholder of Triumph Foods, a producer-owned primary pork processing plant in St. Joseph, Missouri. Triumph Foods also holds a 50 percent partnership in another primary pork processing plant, known as Seaboard Triumph Foods, LLC of Sioux City, Iowa. To support further pork processing for specialized items such as bacon and other premium products, Triumph Foods members own 50 percent of Daily’s Premium Meats. Through key packer and partner relationships, Christensen Farms markets over 3.6 million hogs per year with increased traceability, quality assurance, consistency and availability for our customers and our company.