America’s pig farmers produced a record-breaking number of market hogs in 2016, resulting in ample supplies of pork at the retail meat case and in restaurants.

One of the leading producers of country ham in the U.S. is Goodnight Brothers, a Boone, N.C. company that started when five brothers got into the food distribution business.

A growing economy and increased interest in the foodservice sector are two of the biggest strengths that pork has at the moment, according to the experts assembled by the National Pork Board as part of a “state of the industry” teleconference.

Clean-label alternative ingredients that function similarly to traditional enhancement solutions are of value to both the pork industry and consumers.