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 ...

After several buoyant years for the pork sector, falling pig prices are once again squeezing margins for producers. Finished pig prices have slipped by ...

AMES, IOWA — Registration is open for Iowa State University’s upcoming Fresh Pork Processing Short Course, held Feb. 3-5, ...

More than 80% of poultry slaughterhouse workers and half of hog processing employees testing faster line speeds are at high risk of developing chronic conditions like arthritis and carpal tunnel ...

An executive at the new $300 million Seaboard Triumph pork processing plant near Sioux City says filling about 2,000 jobs over the next 18 months could be tough because unemployment is so low.

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 ...

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.