Pork shipments from a North Carolina pork processing plant are now blocked from entering Mexico. The plant, located in Tar Heel, N.C., is a Smithfield foods plant and is the largest in the world. The ...

Federal food inspectors at many of the nation’s swine slaughterhouses fail to do their job and let repeat offenders continue to produce potentially contaminated meat without punishment, raising a ...

A Manitoba-made eartag for market hogs could reduce processing challenges and enable more individual management of pigs on ...

Shannon Gibbons of Mason City addresses the City Council with her concerns about the proposed hog processing plant Tuesday during the public forum of the council meeting at the Mason City Public ...

Opponents of Triumph Foods' proposed hog-processing plant in East Moline will hold a River Rally at Riverside Saturday. The rally will be from 4-7 p.m. at Riverside United MethodistLife Center, 2410 ...

Ranchland Packing Co. wants to move from its location at 1201 Centennial Ave., and open a new hog processing plant in the Tax Increment Financing Industrial District, west of Butte. Owner Gary Wold ...

GUYMON -- Jess Nelson remembers when Swift's Guymon meat packing plant shut down 14 years ago. Oil and natural gas prices already had headed south, and cattle and wheat went bad at the same time. "We ...

I heard through relatives in Butte that a pig processing plant will be opened in Butte and that the city manager thinks it will only stink during hot weather. I have news for him, the pig farms and ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - John Morrell, a unit of Smithfield Foods , said on Wednesday it was shutting its antiquated hog processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, from April 20, sending hog futures prices ...