Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the ...

Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued proposed rules to gut slaughterhouse line speed regulations at poultry and pork processing facilities. If finalized, the poultry rule would allow ...

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 ...

City and state officials announced Monday that Smithfield Foods will build a new plant in northwestern Sioux Falls, freeing ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Smithfield Foods will vacate the site of its pork processing plant near downtown Sioux Falls and build a new slaughterhouse, following a $50 million donation from banker and ...