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 ...
LIVE IN TOLEDO, MARCUS MCINTOSH, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. STACEY: HOG FARMERS ACROSS IOWA ARE LOOKING FOR PLACES THEY CAN TAKE THE HOGS THEY RAISED, BECAUSE A NUMBER OF PROCESSING PLANTS CAN’T ...
Minnesota Pork’s Activate class explores pork processing, leadership and advocacy through hands-on learning and a tour of ...
It’s a gut-wrenching situation hog farmers across the nation were hoping to avoid; an estimated 3 to 5 million pigs are now expected to be euthanized as more and more meat-processing plants shut their ...
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New Trump rules will make meat processing a lot deadlier

The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the ...
A break in the supply chain has left Ohio and much of the country with an excess of hogs on farms and a shortage of pork in stores. Hog farmers in Ohio and elsewhere are struggling to get their ...
Farmers, employees, consumers, and residents in communities such as Waterloo, Iowa, can only hope the changes Tyson Foods has made in its sprawling pork processing plant there will soon have workers ...
Third generation hog farmer Chad Leman, making his daily rounds, points to dozens of 300-pound pigs. "These pigs should be gone," he said. He means gone to the meatpacking plant to be processed. But ...
It’s a gut-wrenching situation hog farmers across the nation were hoping to avoid; an estimated 3 to 5 million pigs are now expected to be euthanized as more and more meat-processing plants shut their ...