The Philippines is the world's second-biggest geothermal producer behind the United States, with 18% of the country's electricity needs being met by geothermal power.

Gold Fields is the world's second-biggest producer.

Washington State, the nation's second-biggest producer of potatoes and the dominant exporter of frozen French fries, is also struggling with a downturn.

It will make Pepperell the nation's biggest producer of bed linens and the second-biggest producer of bath towels.

Standard is the second-biggest producer of American oil.

China is already the world's second-biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions and is expected to surpass the United States as the biggest.

Factory No. 112, the second-biggest producer of the more formidable T-34, continued production undisturbed.

Planting in Texas and California, respectively the nation's biggest and second-biggest producers, is running near the normal pace.

North Dakota, which for decades was the second-biggest producer of wheat after Kansas, has lost 1.69 million wheat acres since 2000, a 16 percent decline.

Partially because of hedging, Barrick, the second-biggest North American producer, now has a stock market value of nearly $7.6 billion.