Among them, pig slaughtering and processing are important links in the pork industry chain, and the final products flow to the end consumer market. The capacity utilization of the slaughtering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

(Washington, DC) – A Trump administration final regulation announced on September 17, 2019 to allow increased slaughter line speeds in hog processing plants in the United States threatens to put ...

The UK government has been warned it is facing a mass cull of pigs because of a shortage of butchers. The cull, predicted by The National Farmers Union (NFU) and The National Pig Association (NPA), ...