VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only California plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state. The Farmer ...

Products such as bacon, sausage, hot dogs, dinner sausage, bone-In-hams, and sliced hams, will cease being produced at Smithfield’s Farmer John meat packing plant in Vernon, CA. Smithfield will ...

"Smithfield is taking these steps ... and stable workforce that makes the Farmer John plant a productive and profitable part of Vernon's packing infrastructure," said UFCW 770 President John ...

This time, it's the threat of the coronavirus, which killed at least two of his coworkers at the Smithfield Foods meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls. It’s the worry he felt when his locker mates ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Meat-packing ...