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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - John Morrell, a unit of Smithfield Foods , said on Wednesday it was shutting its antiquated hog processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, from April 20, sending hog futures prices ...

(Reuters) - Three new and two revamped U.S. pork processing plants are slated to begin operations by 2018, driven by a prolonged period of industry profitability and heightened Chinese pork demand, ...

An unnamed hog processing operation is in the works to build a 600,000-square-foot facility on an open lot south of Mason City on South Pierce Avenue, creating 2,000 new jobs in its first two years, ...

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 ...

Ranchland Packing Co. wants to move from its location at 1201 Centennial Ave., and open a new hog processing plant in the Tax Increment Financing Industrial District, west of Butte. Owner Gary Wold ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Hog processing giant Premium Standard Farms LLC spent $40 million over the last decade developing technology after a court ordered it to sharply reduce odors at its Missouri farms, ...

Shannon Gibbons of Mason City addresses the City Council with her concerns about the proposed hog processing plant Tuesday during the public forum of the council meeting at the Mason City Public ...

DENISON, Iowa (AP) -- The president of Smithfield Foods Inc. wasted no time meeting with employees of the Denison Farmland Foods hog processing plant and assuring them there would be little change ...

DEXTER, Ga. — Papa's Deer and Hog Processing are giving some of their customers’ deer meat to different organizations. One of those organizations is Georgia Hunters for the Hungry. At Papa's Deer and ...