Articles Tagged with ''Smithfield''

Fiscal 2013 sales increased 1% to $13.2 billion.

Iowa, Missouri and several other Midwest states have existing laws that ban foreign ownership of farmland.

Fitch also views completion of the deal as probable, despite political concerns around foreign-ownership of U.S. food assets and potential negative implications for U.S. consumers.

Two Smithfield plants, which handle 43,000 hogs a day or about 10 percent of the U.S. industry, already are ractopamine-free.

The Smithfield Packing Company Inc. plans to shift bone-in ham production from its Landover, Maryland, plant to its facilities in North Carolina and Kentucky.

Smithfield Foods moved up eight positions from its 10th-place ranking in 2012, reflecting its continued progress as a sustainability leader in the global packaged meats space.

Smithfield Foods Inc. reported strong fiscal 2013 third quarter results, driven by growth in packaged meats and solid contributions from international operations.

Smithfield Packing Company is recalling approximately 38,000 pounds of pork sausage that may contain small pieces of plastic, likely from gloves.

Smithfield leads the industry in the production of ractopamine-free pork.

At the end of 2012 it had successfully transitioned 38% of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States from individual gestation stalls to group housing systems.