Given the dismal national record of pig processing plants, Ranchland Packing Co.’s proposed pig plant is potentially very problematic for Butte. While the company and some Butte officials tout the ...

As Illinois’ pork industry creates millions in tax revenue and puts out billions in product, smaller hog farms in west-central Illinois say they had a fairly typical 2025.

With pork prices below the break-even point, pork promotion groups are looking ahead toward the opening of four new pork processing facilities in 2017 and 2018 to help reverse the current financial ...

North Iowa economic developers and community leaders should be very proud to be on the brink of landing a new business that will invest more than $245 million and create up to 2,000 new jobs. An ...