With line speeds increasing and federal inspectors stepping back, critics warn about risks to food safety, worker health, and ...

The U.S. pork industry faces a new speed limit on hog slaughtering, the result of a court ruling that worker groups welcomed and industry officials warned could disrupt farmers and processing plants.

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.

A pig’s head arrives in front of Christopher Lopez. He knows the drill: cut into the area behind the ears, find two small ...

China's top pig farmer Guangdong Wen's Foodstuff Group is pushing into processing meat, broadening its operations to limit the impact from tougher competition and falling pork prices in the world ...

The hog slaughter on Thursday was estimated at 473,000 head, the highest so far this week, down from 480,000 head a week ago and 497,000 a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Iowa’s 5,172 pig farms help create more than 64,000 jobs in the state from hog production, more than 39,000 from hog slaughter and more than 16,000 from hog processing, totaling 120,231 jobs.

Among those jobs, the study says 64,000 are in hog production, 39,000 are in hog slaughter, and another 16,000 jobs are in hog processing. Overall, Hall says the pork industry contributed $15 ...

Chris Fleming, who has almost 20 years in the hog-buying business, said the plant will start by processing 500 to 600 hogs a day and eventually will ramp up to 4,500 to 5,000 a day.