Top 40 Egg Producing Companies

The 2022 Top U.S. egg producing companies have been published by WATTPoultry. The top 40 companies have been listed, and it has been found that the total number of laying hens in the U.S. has remained unchanged from the end of 2020. Despite the transition from cages to cage-free, the U.S. layer population has not decreased.

According to the 2021 Top Egg Company Survey, the 67 largest U.S. egg producers had 344.72 million hens housed on December 31, 2021. The top 10 largest U.S. egg producers are responsible for 52.6% of total U.S. table egg production, and over 70% of U.S. eggs are produced by the top 20 U.S. egg producers.

Rank	Company	Number of hens (millions)
1	Cal-Maine Foods	46,78
2	Rose Acre Farms	27,59
3	Hillandale Farms	20
4	Versova Holdings LLP	19,95
5	Daybreak Foods	14,48
6	Michael Foods	11,91
7	Center Fresh Group	11,5
8	MPS Egg Farms	11,1
9	Prairie Star Farms	9,3
10	Gemperle Family Farms	8,6
11	Opal Foods	8,39
12	Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch	8,3
13	Weaver Brothers	8
14	Sauder’s Eggs	6,6
15	Rembrandt Enterprises	6,25
16	Kreider Farms	6,1
17	Hickman’s Egg Ranch	6
18	Mid-States Specialty Eggs	6
19	Hidden Villa Ranch	5,5
20	Sparboe Farms	5,48
21	Fremont Farms of Iowa	5,3
22	S&R Egg Farm	4,78
23	Wabash Valley Produce	4,7
24	ISE America	4,56
25	Sunrise Farms Inc.	4,5
26	Cooper Farms	4,33
27	Minnich Poultry	3,94
28	Ritewood/Oakdell Egg Farms	3,68
29	Konos Inc.	3,4
30	Creighton Brothers	3,2
31	Forsman Farms	3,1
32	Esbenshade Farms	2,8
33	Berne Hi-Way Hatchery Inc.	2,4
34	Sunrise AcresEgg Farms	2,38
35	Central Valley Eggs	2,3
36	Giroux’s Poultry Farm	2,3
37	Pearl Valley Eggs	2,23
38	Kreher’s Eggs	2,2
39	Hamilton Eggs LLC	2
40	Schipper Eggs LLC	1,82

Top 40 Egg Producing Companies

The top 5 container shipping companies

The top 5 container shipping companies have market share and are only getting stronger after exorbitant profiteering during the pandemic.

The top 5 container shipping companies

1.Maersk: Maersk is a Danish multinational conglomerate with activities in the transport and logistics industry. It is the largest container shipping company in the world, with a fleet of over 500 vessels and a capacity of 3.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).

2.MSC: Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is a Swiss-based shipping line that is the second-largest container shipping company in the world. It has a fleet of over 500 vessels and a capacity of 3.3 million TEUs.

3.CMA CGM: CMA CGM is a French shipping company that is the third-largest container shipping company in the world. It has a fleet of over 400 vessels and a capacity of 2.7 million TEUs.

4.COSCO: COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) is a Chinese state-owned shipping company that is the fourth-largest container shipping company in the world. It has a fleet of over 300 vessels and a capacity of 2.2 million TEUs.

5.Hapag-Lloyd: Hapag-Lloyd is a German shipping company that is the fifth-largest container shipping company in the world. It has a fleet of over 200 vessels and a capacity of 1.6 million TEUs.

The 10 countries leading the way for cultivated meat

The 10 regions leading the way for cultivated meat

1. Singapore – the world’s first country to approve the sale of cultivated meat in December 2020.

2. Israel – recently invested $18M into a nationwide cultivated meat consortium.

3. The United States – Upside Foods received FDA GRAS, becoming the first American company to have its products deemed safe to eat.

4. The European Union – In 2020, the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy included alternative proteins as a “key area of research” for a “fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system”.

5. Specifically Norway and The Netherlands – Netherlands injected €60M into the Cellular Agriculture Netherlands consortium and Norway set up a five-year research project into cellular agriculture with €2M in annual public funding.

6. The United Kingdom – Government policy papers suggest that cultivated would be a part of the country’s successful post-Brexit economic plan.

7. Australia & 8. New Zealand – In Australia and New Zealand, regulators say their existing Novel Foods Standard will already be able to accommodate foods made through cell-ag tech.

9. Japan – The Japanese government has supported homegrown startup IntegriCulture, awarding it a ¥240M (US$2.2M) grant in 2020 to build its first commercial bioreactor.

10. China – Its latest five-year agricultural plan specifically included cultivated meat and “artificial protein” for the first time.

Source: Greenqueen for more info.

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Top 10 sustainable protein investments

Salmon farming companies dominated the top 10 list of sustainable protein investments in a newly released annual ranking from investment consortium Coller FAIRR.

Coller FAIRR, whose members account for $48 trillion (€42 trillion) in managed investments, ranks protein producers on a range of “risk factors,” using publicly available data such as company earnings report to track progress on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

In addition to Mowi, the top 10 included salmon farmers Grieg Seafood, Leroy, Camanchaca, Bakkafrost, Multi X and SalMar.

Brazilian beef conglomerate Marfrig ranked No. 2 on the list, and was joined by UK pork producer Cranswick and New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra.

Other seafood companies also performed well in the rankings, including Cook-owned salmon farmer Tassal Group, one of the top 10, Thai shrimp and aquaculture feed maker CP Foods, and Brazilian meat giant JBS. . Australian salmon farmer Huong asked.

But among his 60 remaining companies, there were few other seafood producers.

European countries that are driving aquaculture.

Discover a comprehensive list of Europe’s leading aquaculture producers, providing insights into the key players in the region’s thriving aquaculture industry.

The total organic aquaculture production at EU 27 level is estimated at 74.032 tonnes in 2020, accounting for 6.4 percent of the total EU aquaculture production. The production has increased by 60 percent compared to 2015 (46.341 tonnes at EU 27 level in 2015), this is mainly due to a growth in organic mussel production.

Based on data collected for this study (EU and national sources), the main species produced are mussels (41.936 tonnes), accounting for more than half of the total organic aquaculture production, followed by salmon (12.870 tonnes), trout (4.590 tonnes), carp (3.562 tonnes), oyster (3.228 tonnes) and European seabass/gilthead seabream (2.750 tonnes).

The main EU producers of organic aquaculture are Ireland (salmon and mussel), Italy (mussel and finfish), France (oyster, mussel, and trout), the Netherlands (mussel), Spain (mussel and sturgeon), Germany, Denmark and Bulgaria (mussel).

The main developments over the last years are:

A significant increase in organic mussel production
An increase in organic oyster production (mainly produced in France)
The decrease or stagnation for most of the finfish species (slight decrease for organic salmon, stability for organic trout and decrease in organic carp) except for organic seabass and seabream following an increasing trend.

These trends can be explained by differences in production methods for shellfish and finfish, with more constraints for the latter (technical and regulatory) as well as limited demand for organic finfish. Based on stakeholder feedback, operators also face difficulties when establishing a clear communication strategy toward their clients to deal with the competition between organic scheme and other certification schemes.

A report published on the EUMOFA website outlines prospects for growth of organic aquaculture in the EU. These prospects are differentiated for shellfish and finfish, with “optimistic” prospects (if the present difficulties are addressed) and “pessimistic” prospects (if the present difficulties are not addressed).

Source: The Fish Site