Smithfield Foods has inked a deal with VisionAg, an affiliate of North Carolina’s HD3 Farms, to start a new hog production business early next year as the meat producer gears up to go public, the ...

Smithfield Foods, Smithfield, Virginia, has named Kraig Westerbeek as president of its hog production operations effective Feb. 29, reporting to President and CEO Shane Smith. Westerbeek, pictured ...

Smith stated, "I'm pleased to report we've raised our outlook for adjusted operating profit, driven primarily by our increased outlook for our Hog Production segment." Hall confirmed, "We now ...

The company aims to increase its packaged meat products, a segment that generates a higher operating margin since this segment sells premium products. Since 2024, the lean hog spot price has increased ...

There is an old saying, perhaps trite: You don’t know how tough you are until tough is the only option. It’s only hog farming to some, but it has been the lifeblood of Beaver County. But now with ...

BEAVER COUNTY, Utah — Up to 70 jobs will be eliminated in Utah hog production operations at Smithfield Foods as the company ends contracts with more than two dozen hog farms in Beaver County.

(Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Monday it will sell 150,000 female pigs to Murphy Family Ventures. The deal will further reduce the number of hogs owned by ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork producer, said Thursday it is on track to end the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant at its U.S.

CHICAGO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods said on Tuesday it will end contracts with 26 hog farms in the U.S. state of Utah, in the latest contraction by the world's largest pork processor in the ...

More than 248,000 servings of donated protein support the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Feeding Southwest Virginia.

CHICAGO, March 11 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods Inc said its hog production unit, the nation's largest, is profitable in its current fiscal quarter although a poor quality corn crop last year has ...