Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, South Dakota is now a coronavirus hot spot. NBC News’ Blayne Alexander hears about the conditions inside the plant, now closed indefinitely, from a longtime employee.

Meatpacking plants are breeding grounds for COVID-19 among workers. Plant employees typically stand shoulder-to-shoulder on their feet for hours at a time, shoving and cutting carcasses. The work ...

There are two halves to Philly’s Dietz & Watson plant. On one side, all the meat is already cooked and cooled. Scores of workers ferry slabs of roast beef pork or bundles of hot dogs from speed racks ...

WAUBUN, Minn. — “We aren’t dummies,” Paul Benson said to his best friend Doyle Turner several years ago as the two discussed how they should start a business from the ground up that could be ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It’s no surprise to those who have spent their entire lives in the “beef state” that Nebraska leads the nation in veal and beef exports, as well as commercial cattle slaughter.

WILLMAR — In downtown Willmar, Abdiweli Yusuf is a co-owner of Amin Grocery. The store sells international foods to help provide the community access to halal foods and ingredients. Halal foods are ...