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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal jury punished the world’s largest pork producer, deciding on June 29 that Smithfield Foods should pay two neighbors more than $25 million for unreasonable nuisances ...

Smithfield Foods says it will pay farmers to cover their manure ponds with plastic on more than 1,000 U.S. farms. Those "lagoons" have become increasingly controversial.

Smithfield, which also maintains large production facilities in the state, said Monday morning that it would buy Premium Standard Farms (PSF) for some approximately $693 million in cash and stock.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The world’s largest pork processor, Smithfield Foods, is closing 35 hog farms. According to the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) data ...

Smithfield Foods Inc (SFII.UL) said on Wednesday it will pay $83 million to settle litigation that accused several companies of conspiring to limit supply in the $20 billion-a-year U.S. pork ...

Smithfield Foods said on Tuesday it will end contracts with 26 hog farms in the U.S. state of Utah, in the latest contraction by the world's largest pork processor in the face of an industry ...