PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. — Caleb Baer never imagined the response he’d get to a Craigslist ad looking for homes — or freezers — for some of his pigs. “Due to the COVID-19 epidemic going around and loss ...

Third generation hog farmer Chad Leman, making his daily rounds, points to dozens of 300-pound pigs. "These pigs should be gone," he said. He means gone to the meatpacking plant to be processed. But ...

Virginia pigs are getting a small reprieve. Smithfield Foods says it plans to end the practice of keeping female hogs in small metal crates while pregnant. The world's largest pork producer said ...

I grew up in Northern Indiana, the same town I find myself raising our family in now. I fondly remember the excitement I felt each autumn when I would pull on my camo gear and let Dad spray me with ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Mike Patterson’s hog farm near Kenyon typically sends animals to the Smithfield ...

JBS USA on Wednesday reopened its Worthington pork plant with a skeleton crew to euthanize hogs — but not process them — while government, union and company leaders determine how to resume meat ...

At about 4 a.m. on Monday, Dwight Mogler hopped into his friend's truck to haul 60 pigs a little over 200 miles to be slaughtered at a small pork processing plant in Sidney. The trip served a couple ...