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 recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report provided an expected slight drop in beef and pork production.

QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - China's top pig farmer Guangdong Wen's Foodstuff Group is pushing into processing meat, broadening its operations to limit the impact from tougher competition and falling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maple Leaf’s pork business spinoff, Canada Packers Inc., is set to make its Toronto Stock Exchange debut on Thursday.

Ron and Jenny Nieken took ownership of a local meat market in Hillman more than a year ago, and business has been good — maybe too good. Formerly known as Lakes Meat Market, the married couple renamed ...

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, ...

MISSISSAUGA — Maple Leaf Foods Inc. says it has completed the spinoff of its pork operations into Canada Packers Inc. Common ...

Missouri family hog farmers have joined a campaign of independent producers to turn up the volume in Washington, D.C., as ...

The Meat Industry Association has launched an investment project to revive pig farming in the Ukraine, uniting 20 meat processing companies. Mykola Babenko, executive director, the Meat Industry ...