Results showed that all gases including CO 2, argon and helium caused some level of aversion, with CO 2 stunning showing the highest incident. Loss of posture was approximately twice as long for pigs ...

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 ...

The process was described to me before I walked onto the kill floor. Jim Wood, owner of Palmetto Creek Farms, gave me the rundown. “They can’t see anything. There’s nothing to hear. I don’t think they ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal government regulators proposed changes Jan. 19 in the way most hogs slaughtered for meat in the United States are processed in a series of new rules that officials say ...

USDA’s June 24 Quarterly Hogs & Pigs Report was viewed as bearish by the market, due largely to a comparatively large spring farrowings total. The industry expected most population numbers on the ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government said on Thursday it would pay 180 million euros (155 million pound) to help restart pig slaughtering, halted after Saturday's recall of pork products due to ...

Federal law designed to prevent animal suffering excludes 98% of slaughtered animals and faces chronic enforcement failures ...

PETERSBURG — A $3 million pork slaughtering plant could be in the future for Petersburg, a facility planners say will offer financial stability for producers who have been burned by the mercurial live ...