“In accordance with Smithfield’s food safety and quality standards ... an employee allegedly urinated at his station during the production process. The facility immediately halted production ...

China, the world's biggest pork consumer, is no longer a viable market for top U.S. pork processor Smithfield Foods due to retaliatory tariffs by Beijing, company executives said on Tuesday.

Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images The chief executive of Smithfield Foods Inc. said ... as plant shutdowns across the country cut into food production. Elected officials and the public must ...

During a national call with reporters and members of the United Food and Commercial ... concerned about how Smithfield will implement the changes, especially on the production line.

"We're talking about real food production here," Griffin continued. Smithfield has said the plant supplies about 18 million servings of food per week, representing 4-5% of the country's pork ...

Smithfield will cease all harvest and processing operations at Vernon and at the same time “align its hog production system by reducing its sow herd in the Western region.” A company statement ...

He saw that Smithfield installed Plexiglas barriers between production-line stations about ... personal well-being to support the nation’s food supply – and that of his own family.

“While meatpacking companies—Smithfield and Tyson in particular—asserted that reduced plant operations and worker absenteeism were making the food supply chain ‘vulnerable ... invoking the Defense ...

The company is increasing production capacity for ... the integration of units previously run under its Smithfield Farmland and John Morrell Food Group arms into a single packaged meats division.

MILFORD, Beaver County — National food company Smithfield Foods ... experiencing historically challenging hog production market conditions," said Smithfield Foods CEO Shane Smith.

The pig is Smithfield Food Inc., the Virginia ham company that ... chicken companies are integrated operations. They control the production process from before the chicken is born to when the ...

Smithfield Foods is a global food company and one of the world ... The company’s Hog Production segment raises hogs on both owned and contracted farms and also sells grains to external customers.