Now that Ranchland Packing Co. has clearance from the USDA to resume business, owner Gary Wold is focusing on growth plans. He wants to add a new hog slaughtering and packing facility capable of ...
Larry Alliger stands in one of his finishing barns for hogs at his farm near Gowrie, Iowa. He now has to transport his hogs twice as far, since the closure of a pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa.
Larry Alliger stands in one of his finishing barns for hogs at his farm near Gowrie. Alliger also grows corn and soybeans. Over the last two years, several large pork packers have closed plants in ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal government regulators proposed changes Friday in the way most hogs slaughtered for meat in the United States are processed in a series of new rules that officials say ...
An unnamed hog processing operation is in the works to build a 600,000-square-foot facility on an open lot south of Mason City on South Pierce Avenue, creating 2,000 new jobs in its first two years, ...
A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...