Insights and Stories on Smithfield

Canada suspends imports from biggest US pork processing plant

Mar. 7, 2025 at 10:47 am CST

Canada has suspended imports from the biggest U.S. pork processing plant, a facility run by Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, North Carolina, the company said on Friday.

Smithfield Foods to keep US pork plants open, eyes tariffs amid IPO, CEO says

Jan. 28, 2025 at 1:04 pm CST

By Juveria Tabassum Reuters Tom Polansek

Smithfield Foods targets up to $10.7 billion valuation in US IPO

Jan. 21, 2025 at 10:36 am CST

By Reuters

Smithfield Foods ends contracts with 26 US pig farms, citing oversupply

Dec. 6, 2023 at 2:03 pm CST

By Reuters Tom Polansek

Smithfield Foods to pay US$75 million in pork price-fixing settlement

Sep. 29, 2022 at 3:23 pm CDT

By jonathan-stempel

U.S. livestock: Hogs firm after five days of declines

Jun. 22, 2021 at 7:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures firmed on Tuesday, with the front-month contract snapping a five-session losing streak on some mild bargain-buying and short-covering, traders said. But concerns about waning export demand for U.S. supplies from China and Mexico kept the gains in check and hog futures remained […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. pork packer Smithfield offers ultra-cold vaccine storage

Dec. 3, 2020 at 8:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Thursday it had offered to help U.S. health officials distribute COVID-19 vaccines and store them in ultra-cold freezers that are in high demand to support a public vaccination campaign. U.S. states, cities and hospitals are scrambling to […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. senators question packers over exports to China during pandemic

Jun. 24, 2020 at 9:22 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Two prominent U.S. Senate Democrats are pressing America’s top meatpackers to disclose by month’s end how much pork, beef and chicken they shipped to China during the coronavirus outbreak while warning of possible meat shortages at home. The request from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. meatpacking workers often absent after plants ordered to reopen

Jun. 15, 2020 at 8:38 pm CDT

Chicago/Washington | Reuters — Smithfield Foods is missing about a third of its employees at a South Dakota pork plant because they are quarantined or afraid to return to work after a severe coronavirus outbreak, according to the workers’ union. Tyson Foods was forced to briefly close its Storm Lake, […]

By Andy Sullivan Tom Polansek

Smithfield starting to reopen Sioux Falls hog plant, union says

May. 4, 2020 at 10:55 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, resumed limited operations on Monday at a massive South Dakota slaughterhouse it closed last month because of the coronavirus pandemic, the union representing plant employees said. The closure of the plant and other slaughterhouses due to coronavirus cases among […]