IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An influential hog dealer sanctioned twice for defrauding pork producers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars says it has fired...
Despite challenges along the supply chain, consumer demand for ground pork increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Pork Board said it saw a 24 percent...
Before Iowa was hit by the massive storm system known as a derecho last week, farmers dealt with yet another tragedy in the COVID-19 pandemic and...
Pork processing plants are slowly beginning to reopen, but hog producers are still feeling the impact of COVID-19 closures and finding unique ways to adapt. Reicks...
Relief and anxiety hit as President Donald Trump issued the Defense Production Act to order meat processing plants to remain open. With horns honking outside from...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — JBS USA said it is temporarily shutting down its big pork processing plant in southwestern Minnesota because of an outbreak of COVID-19 among...
AKRON, Iowa (AP) — In recent years, Fred Zenk built two barns housing about 2,400 hogs between them — long, white, concrete-and-metal structures that are ubiquitous...
BEIJING (AP) — Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world’s pork supply as a deadly virus ravages Asia’s pig herds. Farmers...
