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, ...

A Manitoba-made eartag for market hogs could reduce processing challenges and enable more individual management of pigs on ...

Workers at the world's largest hog processing plant, Smithfield Packing Co. in Bladen County, have voted for a union to represent them at one of the state's largest industrial sites, totals released ...

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ...

An unnamed hog processing operation is in the works to build a 600,000-square-foot facility on an open lot south of Mason City on South Pierce Avenue, creating 2,000 new jobs in its first two years, ...

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 ...

Opponents of Triumph Foods' proposed hog-processing plant in East Moline will hold a River Rally at Riverside Saturday. The rally will be from 4-7 p.m. at Riverside United MethodistLife Center, 2410 ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 2 million chickens from farms in Maryland and Delaware had to be killed last week. Poultry industry officials said staffing shortages at processing plants due to the coronavirus, ...

Muyuan Foods operates an integrated model in hog breeding and production, profiting from selling hogs at scale. The company has invested heavily between 2020 and 2022 to increase its hog production ...

Muyuan Foods operates an integrated model in hog breeding and production, profiting from selling hogs at scale. The company has invested heavily between 2020 and 2022 to increase its hog production ...