The U.S. pork industry faces a new speed limit on hog slaughtering, the result of a court ruling that worker groups welcomed and industry officials warned could disrupt farmers and processing plants.

CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday that nine pork plants can apply to operate faster processing-line speeds under a one-year trial, after a federal judge in March ...

The Department of Agriculture will not seek to overturn a court ruling ordering the nation’s hog processing facilities to operate at slower line speeds. The administration had until the end of June to ...

DAWSON (AP) -- The future of 80 family farms in southwest Minnesota rests on the fate of a new kind of hog processing plant set to open around the middle of December. It's farmer owned and controlled ...

The pig dates back 40 million years to fossils which indicate that wild porcine animals roamed forests and swamps in Europe and Asia. Remains of the earliest known North American peccary, Perchoerus, ...

CHICAGO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rebounded on Thursday from four sessions of losses, amid an accelerating slaughter pace and indications that pork prices may be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A shakeup on the pork ...