Despite lean hog futures prices making seven-year highs this year, pork producers in the region are seeing a negative market impact from April’s federal court ruling against the New Swine Inspection ...

Slower line speeds are now the rule at six pork processing plants under the new Swine Inspection System after a federal court ruling earlier this year ordered packing plants to operate at slower line ...

A federal judge has upheld USDA’s pork inspection system. USDA has announced pork processing plants operating under the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System should prepare to revert to a maximum line ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy ...

The nation's top agriculture official sought to refute concerns of House Republicans Thursday over whether or not the Biden administration was taking enough steps to allow the country's pork ...

Union workers at the JBS pork processing plant in Worthington this week ratified a new contract, which they say addresses critical safety concerns on the production line. The employees, represented by ...

A federal judge in March struck down a provision of swine slaughter inspection regulations that allows pork processors to operate “maximum line speeds." Six pork processing plants will have to slow ...

Local elected officials, community leaders, employees, company leaders and business partners of Standard Meat Co. (SMC), convened in the Fort Worth Stockyards area on Sept. 17, to celebrate the ...

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture have opened enrollment to the public for ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it will invite nine U.S. pork processing plants — including a JBS plant in Ottumwa — to increase line speeds in a trial to determine if they can boost ...