Premium Standard Farms

What Premium Standard Farms does

Premium Standard Farms is presented in the firmographic record as a private for-profit company founded in 1988 with the stated goal of creating a standardized system to produce premium pork. The entity is listed as headquartered in Kansas City, United States, and its designated website domain is psfarms.com. The historical firmographic short description frames the company's mission around premium pork production under a standardized system, indicating a commodity production business model focused on pork rather than technology or services. The firmographic record also lists the company as private and for-profit, with a stated headcount band of 1-10 employees, which is inconsistent with the scale implied by the 1988 pork-production description and suggests the dataset may be tracking a residual or successor entity rather than an active operating pork producer.

The supplied source material contains no documented information on current operating products, customers, technology stack, pricing model, go-to-market motion, distribution channels, partnerships, certifications, regulatory standing, or management team. The only retrieved web source is a HugeDomains domain-listing page indicating that psfarms.com is for sale for $7,895, rather than an active corporate website. A second referenced source concerns a US initiative targeting Nigeria's livestock sector and is unrelated to Premium Standard Farms. There is no evidence in the input of current production capacity, slaughter or processing operations, customer relationships, supply contracts, or any revenue-generating activity.

There is a material inconsistency between the historical firmographic description and the operational signals in the data. The short description references an enterprise-grade pork production company founded in 1988, while the firmographic headcount of 1-10 employees and the live web presence as a for-sale domain suggest the entity as represented in the current data set is not actively operating at the scale implied by the founding mission. Historically, Premium Standard Farms was acquired by Smithfield Foods in 2007 and subsequently became part of WH Group following the 2013 acquisition of Smithfield, which may explain the dormant appearance of the standalone entity. No verifiable current-state operating, financial, or commercial data was found in the supplied input.

Name

Premium Standard Farms

Website

https://psfarms.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Premium Standard Farms was founded in 1988 to produce premium pork using a standardized production system, per its firmographic record. The entity is listed as private and headquartered in Kansas City, United States. No active products, customers, or revenue are documented in current sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pork Production

NAICS

Hog and Pig Farming (112210), Hog and Pig Farming (11221)

SIC

Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

High-Health/Biosecure Hog Production (SPF/Pedigree Nucleus) (AFAEAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Contract Hog Growing (Integrator/Production Contracts) (AFAEAEAK), Finishing Hog Production (Grow-Finish) (AFAEAEAE)

Keywords

• Premium pork production
• Pork processing
• Swine production
• Meat production
• Livestock farming

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations

Core offering

Premium Standard Farms operates a pork production business that uses a standardized system to produce premium pork. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Kansas City, United States, the company focuses on consistent, standardized processes for swine and pork output.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Hormel Foods: Diversified protein and branded pork-products company. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the premium branded pork category, though with broader portfolio scope than a pure hog-production operation.
• Smithfield Foods: The largest US pork producer and the historical acquirer of the original Premium Standard Farms in 2007. Directly comparable as a vertically integrated hog-production and pork-processing incumbent that absorbed PSF's standardized production model.
• JBS USA: Major US pork and beef processor with vertically controlled hog supply. Comparable as a broad incumbent operating standardized hog production at industrial scale.
• Tyson Foods: One of the largest US protein producers with significant pork and prepared-pork operations. Comparable as a broad incumbent using standardized, scaled production systems to serve retail and foodservice channels.

Direct peers

• The Maschhoffs: One of the largest family-owned hog-production networks in North America, using standardized genetics, nutrition, and production practices across contract growers. Comparable to PSF's standardized system model for pork.
• Seaboard Foods: Vertically integrated pork producer operating its own hog farming, nutrition, and processing operations. Directly comparable to PSF's stated model of standardized, integrated premium pork production.
• Clemens Food Group: Family-owned pork producer with vertically integrated hog farming and processing, including Hatfield-branded premium pork products. Closely comparable to a standardized premium-pork producer serving branded retail channels.
• Indiana Packers: Integrated pork processor operating standardized production facilities in the Midwest. Comparable as a similarly scaled peer in standardized hog-to-product pork operations.
• Triumph Foods: Pork processor owned by a group of independent pork producers, built on a standardized, producer-aligned supply model. Comparable as a peer in scaled, standardized pork processing and hog production.
• Prestage Farms: Family-owned integrated pork and turkey producer operating standardized, large-scale hog production across multiple states. Comparable as a peer using standardized production systems to deliver pork at scale.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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