DAWSON (AP) -- The future of 80 family farms in southwest Minnesota rests on the fate of a new kind of hog processing plant set to open around the middle of December. It's farmer owned and controlled ...

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, ...

Workers at the world's largest hog processing plant, Smithfield Packing Co. in Bladen County, have voted for a union to represent them at one of the state's largest industrial sites, totals released ...

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ...

Stakes are getting high in the battle between North Carolina hog producers and state regulators. Hog farmers say a huge drop in prices for their livestock is costing them $16 million a week. Hog ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 2 million chickens from farms in Maryland and Delaware had to be killed last week. Poultry industry officials said staffing shortages at processing plants due to the coronavirus, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The Wholestone Farms butcher shop has been closed since last week. In a social media post, Wholestone Farms said The Butcher Shop in Sioux Falls would be closed “until ...