More than 80% of poultry slaughterhouse workers and half of hog processing employees testing faster line speeds are at high risk of developing chronic conditions like arthritis and carpal tunnel ...

As the pork and poultry industries cheer deregulation that will let them permanently increase the speed of production lines at slaughterhouses, workers say they’re already moving too fast. “We don’t ...

Plexiglass windows are seen at the human resources desk, part of the measures installed to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Seaboard Foods pork processing plant in Guymon, ...

(Reuters) - Three new and two revamped U.S. pork processing plants are slated to begin operations by 2018, driven by a prolonged period of industry profitability and heightened Chinese pork demand, ...

Jim Jendruczek, president and managing partner of Rantoul Foods, in the carcass washer. Our Communities Editor Jim Jendruczek, president and managing partner of Rantoul Foods, in the carcass washer.

BUTTE - A pork company is considering Butte for a large-scale, high-tech hog processing plant. Montana Pork Co. might build a plant capable of processing 500 hogs an hour - and providing about 150 ...