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 ...

Seaboard Foods announced three farm acquisitions on Sept. 11 that will directly supply the company’s pork processing plant in ...

Talk to any farmer who used to raise pigs, and they’ll more than likely tell you it all changed in 1998. That’s the year that draws memories of agony and financial pain for many. Hog margins bled red, ...

CHICAGO, March 24 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures continued higher on Wednesday, reaching a 6-1/2 year high as optimism for consumer demand increases against tighter hog ...

Lean hog futures closed with 5 to 37 cent gains on Friday. The national average base hog price was reported at $76.64 on Friday afternoon, up 9 cents from the Thursday afternoon report. The CME Lean ...

The U.S. pork industry faces a new speed limit on hog slaughtering, the result of a court ruling that worker groups welcomed and industry officials warned could disrupt farmers and processing plants.

LES CÈDRES, QC, July 21, 2021 /CNW/ - Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, and the Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil–Soulanges, Peter Schiefke, ...