Succulent pork roast, yum. Your satisfied taste buds and full tummy has Quality Pork Processors to thank. The company is a fresh-meat processing and co-packing company that does the slaughter and cutting of fresh pork for Hormel Foods. Headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, Quality Pork operates a pork-processing plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and processes more than 19,000 hogs a day. A privately held company founded in 1987 by Richard Knight as a custom meat operation, today Quality Pork provides services such as loin boning, rib conversion, and packaging for Hormel.