Our History

Today, The HANOR Company, is a major player in the U.S. pork chain, adding value via further processing, by selling 1.4 million market hogs each year, and through its genetic breeding program which supports an integrated pig production system processing 9 million pigs annually. HANOR’s highly experienced management looks to the future by forging key alliances in the areas of feed, transport, management information, pork processing, genetics, and marketing.

1978

The first company farm a 500-sow, farrow-to-finish facility was constructed in Nash County, North Carolina.

1985

Daughter Nucleus farrow-to-finish sow farm near Marengo, IL was constructed.

1994

The company herd grew to 4,000 sows on the original Whitakers site and an Edgecombe County farm known as Shellbank Farm in North Carolina.

1994

A new venture was started, contract pig production. This branch of the Company was called "HANOR" ("Ha" from Hans-Dieter Alhusen and "Nor" from Norman Kronseder, one of the Kronseder brothers). Three farms, CAJ One, Creekside, and Polly Ridge, were put into production.

1994

The North Carolina Daughter Nucleus Farm was built to supply replacement females to the North Carolina Farms.

1994

Expanded near Ames, Oklahoma, by building a Farrow to Finish Boar Multiplier, called Major Farm.

1995

Four nursery sites in Eldred, Illinois and eight finisher sites were constructed in White Hall, Illinois.

1996

Main Farm, Crouch 1, Crouch 2, and Scenic Farms in Wisconsin were purchased.

1997

The Oklahoma operations expanded in Ames, OK by constructing two sow farms, Trails End 1 and Trails End 2.

1997

Two gilt development units were constructed in Ames, OK.

1997

The Gene Transfer Center in Ames, OK was built to service the Oklahoma farms.

1997

8 Nursery and 16 finisher sites each were constructed in Mooreland, Oklahoma,

1998

The Enid Feedmill was purchased.

1999

Major Farm was remodeled to function as a commercial farm and renamed Trails End 3.

2002

HANOR opened the Webster City, Iowa Office.

2003

Kronseder Farms bought Cedar and Loreto farms in Wisconsin.

2004

The PORK POWERHOUSE rankings, established HANOR as the 10th largest pork producer in the U.S.

2006

HANOR and its partners formed Triumph Foods, opening a pork processing plant in St. Joseph, Missouri.

2013

The HANOR Company of Wisconsin, LLC purchased Peck's Feed Mill in Wisconsin.

2016

HANOR's corporate offices were relocated to Enid, Oklahoma.

2016

The Marengo farm in Illinois was remodeled.

2017

Sow farms, Expedition Acres near Canton, Missouri, and Dutchman Creek near Beardstown, IL, were built.

2017

HANOR completed renovations to the Mooreland, Oklahoma farms for use as nine sow farms and supporting gilt development units.

2017

A second pork processing plant was opened in Sioux City, Iowa.