The process was described to me before I walked onto the kill floor. Jim Wood, owner of Palmetto Creek Farms, gave me the rundown. “They can’t see anything. There’s nothing to hear. I don’t think they ...

Now that Ranchland Packing Co. has clearance from the USDA to resume business, owner Gary Wold is focusing on growth plans. He wants to add a new hog slaughtering and packing facility capable of ...

PASO ROBLES, Calif – Sinton and Sons Local Meats and Provisions is taking corrective actions after federal inspectors witnessed the improper slaughter of a pig in early February. Personnel with the ...

Chinese restaurant is closed for the time being after firefighters responded to a report of smoke, and found more than they expected. Shaun McGinnis, the chief of the Bellows Falls Fire Department, ...

Lean hog futures posted Wednesday losses of 87 cents to $1.30. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $72.61 on ...

More than 300 workers, many of them Hispanic, walked out of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughtering plant Thursday, protesting a labor screening process and what they described as management ...

Lean hog futures posted losses of 60 cents to $1 across the nearbys on Friday, with February slipping 42 cents last week.