Where is everyone getting the Christmas hams?

[LouNY]

What is wrong with Tar Heel, NC? :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Smithfield Foods to Expand Its Tar Heel, NC, Plant | Pork Business



The plant is HUGE. I was shocked at how big it is when I first saw the place. You come around a curve in the road, and BAM!, three is the gigantic facility. I see hogs in trailers at least once a week that are traveling east and I assume heading for Tar Heel.

For those that do not know, people from NC are known as Tar Heels. I found it funny/interesting that there is actually a town with the name.

The Smithsfield pork producer used to confuse me because there is a Smithfield, NC as well as a Smithfieldd BBQ chain. Smithfield BBQ had its first store in Smithfield but the Smithfields pork producer has no linkage to either the BBQ restaurant or town, other than possibly supplying pork to the restaurant.

I THINK the hams we have bought locally, and from Costco, have been Smithfield, which were just as good but cheaper than Honey Baked.

Later,
Dan

And they are owned by the Chinese, what in the h*ll has our government been smoking to let foreigners own our food producers as well as every thing else such as ports communications and power distribution and generation.
Do you trust them to look out for the American consumer and how long is the processing going to stay in the USA.

 

[FTG-05]

If we buy a ham, we generally get it from the local Honeybaked Ham store in town. Pricey, but very good.

Thanks for the useful information, I'd forgotten about them. There's one of those about 45 miles from me, I'm gong to check and see if they're still there.

Thanks!

 

[TnAndy]

I raise and cure my own.....so the answer is: Out of my freezer.

 

[dmccarty]

And they are owned by the Chinese, what in the h*ll has our government been smoking to let foreigners own our food producers as well as every thing else such as ports communications and power distribution and generation.

I agree. I think it is horrible and irresponsible for the US to allow Chinese companies to buy up US companies since WE can't do the same thing in China. If we had equal access it would be a different story but we don't.

Do you trust them to look out for the American consumer and how long is the processing going to stay in the USA.

Yes, they will look out of the American consumer. If they do not, they will be out of business. The hogs are raised and processed in the US so they have to follow US and state regulations and laws.

The processing will stay in the US. They are not going to grow hogs in the US, ship them to China for processing and them ship pork chops back to the US. That cost too much money and makes no sense. Heck, there a Russian that bought a closed US chicken plant here in NC. This idjit thought he could buy cheap grain in the Ukraine, ship said grain to chicken growers in the US, and process the chickens in NC. I think he was going to sell the chickens back in Russia. Well, that plan did not last long before he sold the plant. His plan just did not make money sense.

To ship live hogs to from the US to China would be HUGELY expensive and wasteful. The Russian was having problems getting port access to ship grain to NC. I can't imagine how many hurdles one would have to clear to ship live hogs from a US port. In NC, we only have two ports and they would have to build facilities to hold and load the hogs at a port. I just don't see that happening in NC.

Later,
Dan

 

[orangeandgreen]

Smoked ham from the local BBQ restaurant, they get the meat from the local slaughter house. Glad I saw this thread, might help me remember that I have to pick it up Saturday morning.

 

[jerrybob]

I agree. I think it is horrible and irresponsible for the US to allow Chinese companies to buy up US companies since WE can't do the same thing in China. If we had equal access it would be a different story but we don't.



Yes, they will look out of the American consumer. If they do not, they will be out of business. The hogs are raised and processed in the US so they have to follow US and state regulations and laws.

The processing will stay in the US. They are not going to grow hogs in the US, ship them to China for processing and them ship pork chops back to the US. That cost too much money and makes no sense. Heck, there a Russian that bought a closed US chicken plant here in NC. This idjit thought he could buy cheap grain in the Ukraine, ship said grain to chicken growers in the US, and process the chickens in NC. I think he was going to sell the chickens back in Russia. Well, that plan did not last long before he sold the plant. His plan just did not make money sense.

To ship live hogs to from the US to China would be HUGELY expensive and wasteful. The Russian was having problems getting port access to ship grain to NC. I can't imagine how many hurdles one would have to clear to ship live hogs from a US port. In NC, we only have two ports and they would have to build facilities to hold and load the hogs at a port. I just don't see that happening in NC.

Later,
Dan

The Chinese pigs are terrible drivers........just terrible!:laughing:

 

[FTG-05]

I raise and cure my own.....so the answer is: Out of my freezer.

How much for one? Seriously.

 

[FTG-05]

Before you get to enthused with that Smithfield ham you might want to checkout the ownership of Smithfield and were their hogs are processed.

I've been enjoying Smithfield hams for a lot of years. The change in ownership doesn't bother me. The guys doing the cutting, processing and supervising are still Americans.

 

[hawkeye08]

For those in the Maryland area, I have heard (and had some of their products) Copper Penny Farms is good.

Copper Penny Farm | Naturally and Humanely Raised Meats

 

[buckeyefarmer]

For those in the Maryland area, I have heard (and had some of their products) Copper Penny Farms is good.

Copper Penny Farm | Naturally and Humanely Raised Meats

I work near there and have never heard of them.