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

Workers in the meat packing and food processing industries would be better protected under legislation passed Feb. 4 by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, according to prime sponsor state ...

The new facility expands Frontier Meat’s capacity to support local farmers with USDA-certified processing and cold ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — A local agriculture cooperative’s quest to build a local meat-packing plant will get a major boost Monday if the Washington County Commission finalizes approval of $2 ...

MSU scientists with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station prepare steaks on styrofoam strays at the university’s Meat Science and Muscle Biology Lab, where a new apprenticeship ...

Fort Worth-based Standard Meat Company is planning to renovate a nearly 70-year-old cold storage facility near the Stockyards to convert it into a specialized packing plant. The 166,000-square-foot ...

Members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 7 union last week voted overwhelmingly to authorize a worker strike at ...

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...

Recent livestock processing plant closures in the High Plains region have generated headlines, but agricultural economists note they occur because of tight margins. Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. WALL, S.D. –The 2,400 square-foot Wall Meat Processing plant is ...