Given the dismal national record of pig processing plants, Ranchland Packing Co.’s proposed pig plant is potentially very problematic for Butte. While the company and some Butte officials tout the ...

RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND) - A Rantoul hog-processing plant has been cited after two pigs that were supposed to be unconscious for slaughtering were almost put in a scalding tank while awake. That is ...

MASON CITY, IOWA — After nearly six hours of debate, it took attendees only several seconds — in near silence — before realizing the city's vote on a proposed hog processing plant came out as a tie, ...

DAWSON (AP) -- The future of 80 family farms in southwest Minnesota rests on the fate of a new kind of hog processing plant set to open around the middle of December. It's farmer owned and controlled ...

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.

With pork prices below the break-even point, pork promotion groups are looking ahead toward the opening of four new pork processing facilities in 2017 and 2018 to help reverse the current financial ...

Smithfield Foods Inc [SFII.UL] will shutter its hog processing facility, the world's largest, on Saturday to protect employees in North Carolina from Hurricane Matthew, industry sources said on Friday ...

Mike Patterson’s hog farm near Kenyon typically sends animals to the Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls. But he can’t now, after the plant shut down because of a COVID-19 outbreak. With ...

North Iowa economic developers and community leaders should be very proud to be on the brink of landing a new business that will invest more than $245 million and create up to 2,000 new jobs. An ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois officials say a meat-processing company will begin operations this fall after agreeing to lease a former slaughtering facility in Rantoul. The Department of Commerce ...

While pig ears and snouts rarely make appearances on Western dining tables, they are hailed as culinary treasures in China — a regional predilection that has led to a booming market in imported pig ...