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Smithfield Foods, Inc., is an American pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia. It operates as an independent subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate WH Group. [ 4][ a] Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company by Joseph W. Luter and his son, the company is the largest pig and pork producer in the ...
Smithfield Hog Production is headquartered in Princeton, Missouri [citation needed] and owns a pork processing plant located in Milan, Missouri. At one time, the company operated 132 company-owned farms and 109 contract farms in the state of Missouri, in addition to a leased farm and eight feed mills.
Smithfield, Virginia was known for its pork products as early as the 18th Century. Isle of Wight bacon and Smithfield ham were its most famous products. In 1926, a law was passed, making it illegal to refer to any pork not processed within Smithfield's boundaries as "Smithfield ham."
A Smithfield Foods processing plant in South Dakota was forced to close its doors after more than 500 workers tested positive for the virus this month. Many meat processing plants across the ...
Under the agreement, Virginia-based Smithfield Foods will develop a plan to prevent infectious diseases at meatpacking plants nationwide and pay a $13,500 fine.
Previously, Smithfield settled with a different group of pork buyers for $83 million, and JBS agreed to pay the restaurants and caterers $12.75 million in the pork lawsuit. Smithfield Foods ...
Genuine Smithfield hams [are those] cut from the carcasses of peanut-fed hogs, raised in the peanut-belt of the Commonwealth of Virginia or the State of North Carolina, and which are cured, treated, smoked, and processed in the town of Smithfield, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The "peanut-fed" and "peanut-belt" stipulations were removed in 1966.
Net income at the Smithfield, Va., company for the period that ended Aug. 1 was $76.3 million, or 46 cents a share, compared to Smithfield Foods Earnings: Top Pork Company Brings Home the Bacon ...