New Horizon Farms traces it’s beginning in pork production back to September, 1993. The acquisition of a sow farm, Global Wes ... t and a nursery facility, Global East was at that time under the company name of Global Ventures located in Rock County, Minnesota. The 1,200 head West sow operation weaned approximately 650 pigs a week into the East nursery farm. A feed mill site was part of the original purchase. The mill had burned prior to Global Ventures purchasing it. Soon after the purchase was finalized, a feed mill was rebuilt on the same site and was up and running in June of 1994. The new feed mill required a new truck with a feed box and original employees would manufacture and deliver the feed to various sites making as much as 50 tons of feed a day. The hog market crashed in 1998, and this left many area producers in a tough financial position. Often in tough times, business opportunities present themselves, and because of that, the company purchased the Whitewood and Applewood sow farms and expanded the pork production side of New Horizon Farms. As the years passed, more acquisitions were made and farms were expanded. Today, New Horizon employs over 150 hardworking individuals across three companies; New Horizon Farms, New Horizon Feeds and New Horizon Grain. At present, New Horizon Farms has 16,500 sows housed in five sow farms. New Horizon Farms includes six nurseries that have the capacity of 57,000 head at one time. There are sixty finishing sites located across southwest Minnesota, eastern South Dakota and northwest Iowa that can finish 128,000 hogs. The facilities are state of the art with both natural and tunnel ventilation and deep pit designs. Annually, New Horizon Farms markets over 430,000 hogs to JBS Swift and John Morrell. In addition, New Horizon Farms is home to four research facilities that are used to look at new production technologies and the well being of our animals. read more