US industry chiefs are pushing for line speeds to be increased so that more animals can be slaughtered per hour. But campaigners say this could exacerbate food safety problems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 • The U.S. pork industry could be heading for higher hog prices as processing plants come on line at an unprecedented rate with packers investing millions of dollars to satisfy the appetite of ...

I believe the wind generation plant proposed for Butte is tremendous. One hundred jobs with strong possibilities of 500 more; it doesn’t get any better than that, does it? However, I doubt we will see ...

MASON CITY — People against the proposed Prestage Foods hog-processing plant gathered at the band shell in East Park Friday night to gather petition signatures and socialize.