Given the dismal national record of pig processing plants, Ranchland Packing Co.’s proposed pig plant is potentially very problematic for Butte. While the company and some Butte officials tout the ...

Management told a delegation from the IFA at a three-hour meeting that this was due to the co-op’s lack of scale and the high labour cost in its pig meat processing operations. The co-op said it was ...

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Scotland's largest pig processing plant is to suspend its slaughtering process on Tuesday amid a Europe-wide shortage of CO2. Quality Pork Limited in Brechin, Angus, will carry out its last slaughter ...

Speculation has been rife that the co-op plans to cease slaughtering in Mitchelstown and have it done instead at Glanbia plants in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, and Edenderry, Co Offaly. Pig producers sought ...

Italy-based charcuterie specialist Veroni has bought local pig processing business ProSus Gardenia for an undisclosed sum. The deal gives Veroni control of an agricultural cooperative of pig producers ...