Pork producers are coping with similar economic ... “When you look at ongoing packing plant closures, both in the United States and Canada, it is a signal that we continue to see some ...

The US meat processing sector relies on the use of illegal workers and is therefore scrambling for solutions in the face of ...

Seaboard Foods is among the nation's biggest pork producers. In addition to Iowa ... not unique in the industry or to the Seaboard Foods plant in Sioux Falls. Seaboard in September 2023 contracted ...

Producers raise about 50 million hogs annually, and the state has 14 pork processing plants with thousands of workers. “Pork producers spend a lot of money in Iowa,” Schulz said. Farmers buy ...

Mitchell, South Dakota pork producer Brad Greenway says, “The Fremont (Nebraska) plant, what is was is the 200 or so producers that own that plant or farmers you know had more pigs than what ...

The packer/feeder margin spread grew this week in favor of the feeder at $285 per head while pork producers found positive ...

Seaboard Foods is among the nation's biggest pork producers. In addition to Iowa ... not unique in the industry or to the Seaboard Foods plant in Sioux Falls. Seaboard in September 2023 contracted ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A sanitation contractor has been fined nearly $172,000 after federal authorities discovered that the company employed 11 children to do "dangerous work" at a pork processing ...

Federal investigators found nearly a dozen children to be working dangerous, overnight shifts at Seaboard Triumph Foods' pork processing plant in ... nation's biggest pork producers.

Tyson has also closed six U.S. chicken plants since the start of 2023 and an Iowa pork plant, laying off thousands of workers ... He also covers U.S. livestock production and meatpacking companies ...