The largest meat processing company in the U.S. is a well-known brand that has its hand in making multiple meat products, ...

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 ...

Smithfield Foods purchases Nathan's Famous in a major food industry acquisition for $102 per share, resulting in a $450 ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy ...

The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes and changed the way Americans purchase and ...

DENVER — The US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) announced it is working closely with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC ...

President-elect Joe Biden's administration will likely ramp up regulation of meatpackers after Covid-19 outbreaks spread through many of the nation's biggest processing plants, USA Today reported this ...

Over the Labor Day weekend, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was going to ease wastewater regulations on meat processing plants. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a final action ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. When several large pork processing plants shuttered last spring because workers ...