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Meat industry hits hard times

Inflation, high interest rates and high input costs are catching up to sector

By Don Norman May 26, 2023

The meat industry, particularly pork, is facing tough times as inflation catches up with demand. There’s been a torrent of bad news in the meat sector in the last two months. Tyson Foods reported its first quarterly loss since 2009; HyLife’s processing plant in Windom, Minn., declared bankruptcy; Smithfield Foods is closing 40 sow farms

Hogs, News

Manure releases from Smithfield hog farms raise environmental concerns

By Leah Douglas April 19, 2022

Reuters – More than 20 Missouri hog farms have reported an increase in emergency manure releases since U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods took them over in 2006, an environmental advocacy group says, citing equipment failures and improper maintenance that raise concerns about the impact on air and water quality. The group, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project

Workers exit the Smithfield Foods pork plant as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S., April 16, 2020.

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U.S. meat plants relaxed some COVID-19 safety protocols after outbreaks

Unions say companies have quickly reverted and Omicron variant has raised dangers

By Tom Polansek January 12, 2022

Reuters – Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, last year assigned a team of dedicated employees to enforce social distancing and sanitize surfaces at a South Dakota slaughterhouse where COVID-19 infected nearly 1,300 workers, the president of the local labour union said. Now, that role no longer exists, the company confirmed. The plant gradually moved employees who

Hogs, News

Mexico agrees to resume pork shipments from Smithfield plant in U.S.

By Reuters August 23, 2021

Mexico is allowing a Smithfield Foods’ hog plant in North Carolina, the world’s biggest, to resume shipments of pork products after blocking it two months ago over quality concerns, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Smithfield’s plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, is allowed again to export pork to Mexico that was produced on

Markets, News

Smithfield Foods stops slaughtering pigs at U.S. hometown plant

By Tom Polansek July 26, 2021

Reuters – Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, has stopped slaughtering pigs in the United States’ so-called ham capital, where the company was founded 85 years ago. The end of slaughtering in Smithfield, Virginia, is the latest reconfiguration for the company’s namesake plant and follows a months-long internal review of its East Coast operations,

A road sign directs traffic to Smithfield Foods’ pork-processing facilities in Smithfield, Virginia.

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Smithfield Foods plots new course

New CEO has shaken up management team of world’s largest pork processor amid COVID challenges

By Reuters January 18, 2021

Smithfield Foods has unveiled a management shakeup as the world’s largest pork processor and its new chief executive deal with the ripple effects of a pandemic-led drop in restaurant meat consumption and coronavirus infections among workers. The pandemic has reduced demand for meat at restaurants, cafeterias and other food-service outlets, delivering an economic shock to

News

‘Spread out? Where?’ Smithfield says not all plant workers can be socially distanced

By Tom Polansek August 12, 2020

Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said workers cannot be socially distant in all areas of its plants, in response to U.S. senators who pressed meat packers on COVID-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses. Meat packers are under mounting pressure to protect workers after more than 16,000 employees across 23 U.S. states were infected with COVID-19

Livestock, News

North Dakotans put ‘corporate’ farming to vote

Voters back repeal of a law allowing corporate operation of dairy and hog farms

By Reuters June 27, 2016

North Dakotans in a statewide referendum June 14 voted to repeal a law enacted last year that changed decades of family-farming rules in the state by allowing corporations to own and operate dairy and hog farms. Results posted on the North Dakota state government website put the unofficial final vote count from the ballot measure

Hogs, Opinion

Analyzing the Smithfield deal

By Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer June 28, 2013

The Chinese meat products firm Shuanghui International has announced its acquisition of Smithfield Foods, which controls 26 per cent of U.S. pork-processing capacity and 15 per cent of U.S. pork production. The value of the transaction is estimated by Smithfield to be US$7.1 billion. A number of questions began to run through our heads. Good

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Other livestock

With big U.S. pork buy and diet shift, China now asks: ‘Where’s the Beef?’

By Dominique Patton, Niu Shuping June 26, 2013

With more money in their pockets, millions of Chinese are seeking a richer diet and switching to beef, driving imports to record levels and sending local meat firms abroad to scout for potential acquisition targets among beef farmers and processors. The need to feed the world’s most populous nation has seen Chinese firms gobble up

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Tag Archives Smithfield Foods

Meat industry hits hard times

Manure releases from Smithfield hog farms raise environmental concerns

U.S. meat plants relaxed some COVID-19 safety protocols after outbreaks

Mexico agrees to resume pork shipments from Smithfield plant in U.S.

Smithfield Foods stops slaughtering pigs at U.S. hometown plant

Smithfield Foods plots new course

‘Spread out? Where?’ Smithfield says not all plant workers can be socially distanced

North Dakotans put ‘corporate’ farming to vote

Analyzing the Smithfield deal

With big U.S. pork buy and diet shift, China now asks: ‘Where’s the Beef?’

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