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 ...

Federal food inspectors at many of the nation’s swine slaughterhouses fail to do their job and let repeat offenders continue to produce potentially contaminated meat without punishment, raising a ...

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 ...

Ranchland Packing Co. wants to move from its location at 1201 Centennial Ave., and open a new hog processing plant in the Tax Increment Financing Industrial District, west of Butte. Owner Gary Wold ...

A proposed pig feedlot and processing plant slated for Sawdust Road has drawn the ire of Grogan's Mill residents, who complain it would basically amount to a slaughterhouse near their village. But ...

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 ...

Shannon Gibbons of Mason City addresses the City Council with her concerns about the proposed hog processing plant Tuesday during the public forum of the council meeting at the Mason City Public ...

MASON CITY — Mason City is on the brink of landing a hog-processing operation that is expected to employ 2,000 workers in its first two years. Officials declined to name the company. An official ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - John Morrell, a unit of Smithfield Foods , said on Wednesday it was shutting its antiquated hog processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, from April 20, sending hog futures ...