CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy ...

Talk to any farmer who used to raise pigs, and they’ll more than likely tell you it all changed in 1998. That’s the year that draws memories of agony and financial pain for many. Hog margins bled red, ...

Pork producers across the country are struggling to find a place to take weaned piglets to finishing hogs as processing plants slow or shutdown because employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

Food processing company Maple Leaf Foods has announced the construction of a state-of-the-art fresh pork processing plant in Saskatchewan. “This investment in Saskatchewan reinforces our strategy of ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY (WSIL) -- Saline River Farms, LLC has announced the planned construction of a meat processing facility in eastern Williamson County. According to a press release, the company plans ...

Tyson Foods said Wednesday it is suspending operations indefinitely at its pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa. The Arkansas company said it will offer COVID-19 testing to all 2,800 employees at ...

When several large pork processing plants shuttered last spring because workers got sick with Covid-19, it sent many who raise livestock into a panic. “Farmers would call me and say: ‘My pigs are too ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Two Indiana meat plants temporarily closed over coronavirus concerns account for approximately 9% of the nation’s pork processing capacity, experts said. Company officials were ...

If Wholestone Farms' proposed Sioux Falls plant comes to fruition and reaches its full potential, Sioux Falls could be responsible for nearly 10% of the country's pork processing by the end of the ...

Days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping meat-processing facilities open amid the coronavirus pandemic, plants across the country are scrambling to balance worker ...

The Biden administration will not fight a federal court ruling that prevents U.S. pork processing plants from speeding up their production lines, saying the government failed to properly consider ...

A pork processing plant in Missouri has confirmed 373 new coronavirus cases among its employees, underscoring the threat meat processing plants pose to their staff during the coronavirus pandemic.