The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day.

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 ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY—Every year, Missouri conservation officials kill thousands of wild pigs across the state, calling them a scourge on farmers, fish, forests and wildlife alike. A local representative ...

Dominion Energy has a new source of fuel for its natural gas business. Hog manure. The Richmond-based energy giant announced a $250 million joint venture with Smithfield Foods on Tuesday to capture ...

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