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  • The affected Smithfield plants include its Tar Heel, N.C. facility — the world's largest pork-packing plant by volume — and one in Clinton, N.C. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Russia Pork Ban Hits Meat Prices 2010

  • His forecast for Smithfield's April quarter is a loss of 31 cents per share, reflecting "a miserable environment for fresh pork-packing margins and hog production."

    Pork, Unjustly Fried 2009

  • The hogs were driven by farmers to the pair of new pork-packing plants in town.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The hogs were driven by farmers to the pair of new pork-packing plants in town.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Wheat, the establishment of a terminal elevator at the Pacific Coast, of a pork-packing and beef-chilling plant by the Provincial Government, etc.

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

  • It will be recalled that one of the subjects in which the Alberta farmers were interested from the first was the possibility of persuading the Provincial Government to undertake a co-operative pork-packing plant.

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

  • Cincinnati had then become a noted pork-packing and manufacturing center.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • I am now in the pork-packing business, and make a handsome income for my wife and two children.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

  • Bones from the South American pampas, bones from the pork-packing houses of Cincinnati, bones from the grazing plains of Texas, come here to mingle.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • However, with the progress being made with the Provincial Government in connection with the pork-packing and beef-chilling plant and with the

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

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