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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

USDA ERS anticipates slightly higher production, lower prices in the new year will attract foreign interest in U.S. pork.

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 ...

The East Carolina University Special Collections division and the Phoenix Historical Society are partnering to document a local win over environmental racism from the 1990s, thanks to being awarded a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Seaboard plant in Guymon, Oklahoma, failed to record injuries that required more than basic first aid and place protections to prevent injuries from repetitive motions and lifting. Seaboard Foods ...