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

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 ...

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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, ...

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 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.

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

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 ...

Tyson in Louisa County and Smithfield in Sioux Falls, S.D. have both shut down after workers tested positive for COVID-19. Many pork producers in Iowa are wondering where they’re going to take their ...