Smithfield Foods does not plan to close more U.S. pork processing plants, Chief Executive Shane Smith said on Tuesday, as the ...

Smithfield CEO Shane Smith took the country’s largest pork producer public in the U.S. this week. Now he faces the big ...

U.S. farmers, who deliver hogs to processing plants, and slaughterhouse workers have been on edge about the risk for further plant closures. Smithfield closed a plant in Vernon, California ...

Smithfield says it is the world’s largest hog producer and pork processor. The company’s Farmland Foods plant in Monmouth can process more than 10,000 hogs per day, accounting for only a small ...

Hog margins bled red ... Tyson Foods’ decision to shutter four poultry processing plants yet this year and into early 2024, combined with Smithfield Foods closing 35 pig farms, are strong ...

Smithfield Foods has signed an agreement to sell thousands of hogs to HD3 Farms, allowing one of the largest wean-to-finish growers in the United States to act as an independent pork producer.