Shannon Gibbons of Mason City addresses the City Council with her concerns about the proposed hog processing plant Tuesday during the public forum of the council meeting at the Mason City Public ...
Ranchland Packing Co. wants to move from its location at 1201 Centennial Ave., and open a new hog processing plant in the Tax Increment Financing Industrial District, west of Butte. Owner Gary Wold ...
MASON CITY — Protesters gathered Monday morning outside of City Hall in downtown Mason City to show their opposition to a proposed hog processing plant. Signs reading “Say no to the slaughterhouse” ...
The opening of a pork processing plant would be an economic blessing to pork producers, consumers and people looking for work, local hog farmers say. For one thing, the competition among the companies ...
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 ...
Opponents of Triumph Foods' proposed hog-processing plant in East Moline will hold a River Rally at Riverside Saturday. The rally will be from 4-7 p.m. at Riverside United MethodistLife Center, 2410 ...
After Mrs. Marner researched the pork processing industry, she began worrying her son may get chronic asthma by breathing in manure and living near the plant. "Hog trucks are just smelly as heck," Mrs ...
This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ...
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 ...