Swine Management Services, LLC is a private company that has become a leading provider of information solutions for the pig industry. The company was acquired from a Food company on August 1, 2002, by Mark Rix and Ron Ketchem, pork industry professionals with more than 60 years of combined experience. The company is located in Fremont, Nebraska, with a data processing records office plus 60,000 sows each week. Using its own software and tools, SMS also provides data analysis for more than 900 + farms with more than 1,500,000 + sows with data from various countries.   

Swine Management Systems, LLC It is an independent company that has no direct association with food producing companies, genetic companies, or full-line production management companies. This allows our company to be independent and objective, in the information provided as part of its management team.

In 2019 several changes were seen in SMS, a new website to present better “information” solutions to the pig industry with innovative Benchmarking programs for both a Farm and Farm Systems. Excellent Benchmarking programs for both Growth and Completion as well as Performance Results on the Packer.