Since May 2018, the new pork processing plant has been running limited operations on second shift while hiring and training for the second shift.

Typically hog futures, cash hog prices and pork cutout values are surging upward at this time of year. This has simply not been the case this year.

Establishments are required to have a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system that identifies potential biological, chemical or physical hazards, and the controls to prevent, reduce or eliminate those hazards at specific points in the...

In a letter, members of Congress call for withdrawal the Modernization of Swine Slaughter Inspection proposed rule.

Seaboard Triumph Foods has begun hiring for a second shift, which will create another 900 jobs.

We never worry about whether we can get rid of everything we produce, it will all move if it gets cheap enough. Demand is the item that is more difficult to measure and we only know its impact by looking in the rear view mirror.

The proposed New Swine Slaughter Inspection System has been used as a pilot project in five pork plants for 15 years, and it has proven to be a strong inspection model.

Historical relative weakness in cash hog prices as measured by the “gross” packer margin has been a troublesome issue for producers — particularly those with packer contracts not based on cutout prices.

The really interesting question to ponder is what happens to the value of the hog carcass this fall when record amounts of pork are processed?