Despite lean hog futures prices making seven-year highs this year, pork producers in the region are seeing a negative market impact from April’s federal court ruling against the New Swine Inspection ...

Slower line speeds are now the rule at six pork processing plants under the new Swine Inspection System after a federal court ruling earlier this year ordered packing plants to operate at slower line ...

A federal judge has upheld USDA’s pork inspection system. USDA has announced pork processing plants operating under the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System should prepare to revert to a maximum line ...

As World Pork Expo enters its second day in Des Moines, Iowa, a policy priority for the pork industry continues to be the issue of line speeds at pork plants. And just this week, Agriculture Secretary ...

The nation's top agriculture official sought to refute concerns of House Republicans Thursday over whether or not the Biden administration was taking enough steps to allow the country's pork ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy ...

A federal judge in March struck down a provision of swine slaughter inspection regulations that allows pork processors to operate “maximum line speeds." Six pork processing plants will have to slow ...

For years, the Trump administration worked to eliminate limits on the speed a meat processing plant operates at. This was a popular move in the meatpacking industry, which saw it as a way to process ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it will invite nine U.S. pork processing plants — including a JBS plant in Ottumwa — to increase line speeds in a trial to determine if they can boost ...