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 ...

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, ...

The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day.

MASON CITY — Mason City is on the brink of landing a hog-processing operation that is expected to employ 2,000 workers in its first two years. Officials declined to name the company. An official ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Prestage Farms will build new $240 million hog processing plant in Wright County after an earlier plan to build in Mason City failed. The company said Tuesday that the plant ...

The Triumph Foods hog processing plant proposed for East Moline will come later than first announced, but when it does it will be larger, employ more people and process more animals per day then ...

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 ...

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 ...

A proposed pig feedlot and processing plant slated for Sawdust Road has drawn the ire of Grogan's Mill residents, who complain it would basically amount to a slaughterhouse near their village. But ...

DELPHI — Indiana Packers reopened Friday — two weeks after it closed the hog-processing plant to test all of its employees and contractors for the coronavirus. Indiana Packers management chose to ...