RANTOUL, Ill. (AP) -- A new farmer-owned packing plant aims to be the hog butcher to a very select crowd -- from the New York restaurant owner who wants every pork chop cut exactly the same to ...

U.S. pork exports are on fire to start the year, led by a strong appetite from Mexico. While exports show strength, domestic pork production looks to be under pressure and consolidation is a growing ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -Canada has blocked imports from the biggest U.S. pork processing plant, a facility run by Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, North Carolina, the company said on Friday. The suspension ...

HASTINGS — The Armour-Eckrich Meats plant in Hastings, which employs about 370 people, will close in July as part of a restructuring plan by Smithfield Foods. The Hastings plant produces packaged ...

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Larry Alliger stands in one of his finishing barns for hogs at his farm near Gowrie. Alliger also grows corn and soybeans. Over the last two years, several large pork packers have closed plants in ...

Over 200 workers at the Ottumwa, Iowa JBS pork processing plant are facing immediate deportation after the Trump administration, supported by the US Supreme Court, revoked temporary protected status ...

Larry Alliger stands in one of his finishing barns for hogs at his farm near Gowrie, Iowa. He now has to transport his hogs twice as far, since the closure of a pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa.

The pork industry is awaiting action by USDA ahead of Nov. 30 on whether processing plants can move to the faster line speeds that a few facilities have been allowed to use in a time-limited trial.