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 ...

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.

A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...

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, ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A shakeup on the pork shelves at your grocery store is coming as pig farmers prepare for the January 1 implementation of a California animal welfare law mandating larger space ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A shakeup on the pork ...