The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day.

Third generation hog farmer Chad Leman, making his daily rounds, points to dozens of 300-pound pigs. "These pigs should be gone," he said. He means gone to the meatpacking plant to be processed. But ...

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 ...

UK-based food manufacturer Cranswick said it has acquired the Buckle family’s share of a pig processing joint venture set up in 2018, White Rose Farms. London-listed Cranswick, a predominately ...

I believe the wind generation plant proposed for Butte is tremendous. One hundred jobs with strong possibilities of 500 more; it doesn’t get any better than that, does it? However, I doubt we will see ...

German meat processor Westfleisch has launched a 3-year research project, called InnovationPork, to reduce the carbon ...