Given the dismal national record of pig processing plants, Ranchland Packing Co.’s proposed pig plant is potentially very problematic for Butte. While the company and some Butte officials tout the ...

RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND) - A Rantoul hog-processing plant has been cited after two pigs that were supposed to be unconscious for slaughtering were almost put in a scalding tank while awake. That is ...

As Illinois’ pork industry creates millions in tax revenue and puts out billions in product, smaller hog farms in west-central Illinois say they had a fairly typical 2025.

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, ...

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 ...

With pork prices below the break-even point, pork promotion groups are looking ahead toward the opening of four new pork processing facilities in 2017 and 2018 to help reverse the current financial ...

Mike Patterson’s hog farm near Kenyon typically sends animals to the Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls. But he can’t now, after the plant shut down because of a COVID-19 outbreak. With ...

North Iowa economic developers and community leaders should be very proud to be on the brink of landing a new business that will invest more than $245 million and create up to 2,000 new jobs. An ...