Free To Roam®

Since 1895, Clemens Food Group has been committed to raising animals under the highest animal welfare standards.

Animal welfare is a top priority for Clemens, and we have always taken a serious, proactive, and comprehensive approach to ensure the proper care and wellbeing of our animals.

Providing the best animal care is a continuously improving process based on sound science, veterinary experts and agriculture experience and expertise. As an industry leader in animal care, Clemens has been researching gestation and farrowing systems for over a decade, and has studied these systems in the United States, as well as systems currently used in Europe and Canada. As a result our farms are on the leading edge of animal care that is both responsible and humane.

A portion of our flow is allocated to a Free to Roam™ program, providing our customers with pork raised in group housed environments. We have made the commitment to transition all of our sows to a group housing system and we are requiring all of our producer partners to convert to group housing for all sows that give birth to Clemens hogs.

Over the next 5 years group housed and open pen gestation will become standard in our elevated conventional pork program. By 2022, 100% of the hogs raised for Clemens Food Group pork products will be in free to roam group housing. This puts us on track to be the first company in the industry to move 100% of its hogs to open pen gestation.

Currently, we offer the following Free To Roam^™ program and products: 

Fresh Pork

Hams

Fully Cooked Breakfast Sausage

Bacon