The Lundy Packing Co.

• Position: Being acquired by Premium Standard Farms - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

It's a place fit for pigs. That's why Pennsylvania butcher Burrows T. Lundy, am-acted by the climate, moved his family to Eastern North Carolina 50 years ago. The Lundy Packing Co. started out slaughtering and dressing 200 hogs a week. That was before swine became the pearl of Tar Heel agribusiness. The Clinton company's 1,200 employees now butcher 8,000 hags a day. But unlike hags, which outnumber people in same eastern counties, family-owned processors are a vanishing breed. Kansas City, Mo.-based Premium Standard Farms, a producer and processor with operations...