Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE- In this July 21, 2017, file photo, young hogs owned by Smithfield Foods are seen at a farm in Farmville, N.C.

VERNON, Calif.VERNON, Calif. — Meat-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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, Utah ...

The Farmer John meat-packing plant in Vernon — a frequent target of protests by animal-rights advocates critical of the treatment of pigs at the facility — will close next year, with its ...

Newly-available U.S. Department of Agriculture documents (published here) show that at Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. near Tar Heel, a pig who had been gassed with carbon dioxide was dumped onto a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Meat-packing giant ...