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4484
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Wendell Murphy, owner of Rose Hill-based Murphy Family Farms, Inc., made hog farming big business in the state. His company was once the nation's top producer, valued at $750 million in 1997. However, overproduction caused prices to fall to the worse level since the Great Depression. Hog lagoon spills were headlined in the press. In 2000, Murphy sold his hog operation to Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, Inc.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 3, Mar 2000,
p28-37, il, por
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578
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The standard in commercial pork production is being edged up by Murphy Farms in Duplin County, the nation's largest producer, which sends 1.1 million hogs to market annually.
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29214
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In Rose Hill, North Carolina, Murphy Farms, the world's largest producer of pork, has become a multi-state and multi-million dollar company. Across this sprawling operation in Duplin County, pigs are housed in state-of-the-art facilities and raised with modern technology.
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