Indiana
Indiana Pork announces a program rebranding of its long-standing partnership with Feeding Indiana’s Hungry and the winners of the Taste of Elegance competition.
It’s one thing to read about it, but it’s another thing to travel across the ocean and experience it for yourself. That’s why Jackie Ponder decided to join a trade mission to Vietnam focused on the benefits of U.S. pork and high oleic soybean cooking oil.
Hurricane-force winds swept from northern Missouri and Iowa all the way east to Illinois and Indiana. The derecho brought wind gusts up to 100 mph, flattening cornfields, but it also drenched soils with crucial rains.
Encouraging the use of pork more frequently and in creative, non-traditional ways, the Indiana Pork Taste of Elegance competition serves pork to over 400 attendees in this event of elegance and celebration.
Legacy Feed, LLC, formed in partnership with Co-Alliance Cooperative, Inc., and Signature Farms, LP, announced its plan to deliver an integrated swine production service to farm families in eastern Indiana.
Here’s a look at recent pork association announcements.
Tyson Foods plans to invest $27 million in one of its plants in western Iowa and hire another 350 works.
Local governments would be prohibited from placing restrictions on large livestock facilities in rural areas under a bill being considered in the Indiana Senate.
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is planning $28 million expansion of its Waterloo, Iowa, pork processing plant, bringing 245 new jobs.
Construction delays are pushing back the opening of a new pork plant in Iowa. Upon completion, the facility will create over 1,000 jobs for the surrounding area.
A tractor trailer in Iowa tipped over in Iowa with 150 pigs inside.
Prestage Farms will build new $240 million hog processing plant in Wright County after an earlier plan to build in Mason City failed.
Eagle Grove City Administrator George McGuire said the planned Prestage hog processing plant in Wright County, Iowa is an example of how an industry can breathe new life into rural areas.
The Supreme Court has ruled for more than 3,000 workers at a Tyson Foods Inc. pork-processing plant in Iowa in a pay dispute with the company.