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Smithfield Foods ends contracts with 26 US pig farms, citing oversupply
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoCHICAGO (Reuters) -Smithfield Foods said it will end contracts with 26 hog farms in the U.S. state...
Smithfield to close Vernon plant due to rising California costs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSmithfield Foods, the largest pork processor in the world, will close its Vernon, California, plant...
How the end of hog farming can kill a way of life in rural Utah
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe announcement by Smithfield that it is ending its hog farming operations will have an economic...
Smithfield to close California facility; Midwest taking over servicing
Argus Leader via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSmithfield Foods, Inc. announced Friday it will close its harvest and processing facility in Vernon,...
Letters to the Editor: Good riddance to the Farmer John slaughterhouse. Now, let's eat less meat
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWorkers outside the Smithfield Foods-owned Farmer John meatpacking plant in Vernon in 2020. (Gary...
Meet the Robots Slicing Your Barbecue Ribs
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoIn Denison, Iowa, a robot spends eight hours a day slicing apart hog carcasses at a plant owned by Smithfield Foods. It serves a dual purpose: producing...
Smithfield Foods closing some Missouri hog production operations
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoSmithfield Foods Inc, the world's biggest pork processor, will close some of its operations and lay off 92 workers in northwestern Missouri this fall, according to the state's Worker Adjustment ...
Smithfield Foods to shutter California meat-packing plant
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMeat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only California plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state. The Farmer John meat-packing plant ...
Wave of executive exits, retirements hit Smithfield Foods
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSeveral senior leaders at Smithfield Foods have left the company during the past few months. Four senior executives, each with years of experience at the meat industry giant, have either retired ...
Missouri legislators will try again to restrict foreign farmland ownership next session
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAfter failing to do so in the past legislative session, Missouri lawmakers are again preparing to...
