Despite lean hog futures prices making seven-year highs this year, pork producers in the region are seeing a negative market impact from April’s federal court ruling against the New Swine Inspection ...

The union at a Smithfield Foods meat processing plant in South Dakota, which generates approximately 5 percent of the U.S. pork supply, has received authorization to go on strike before resuming ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A single South Dakota meat plant – one on the country’s largest pork processing facilities – is now linked ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order under the Defense Production Act to compel meat processing plants to remain open amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump had highlighted the order during ...