We're out here working hard and we just want honest wages and medical you know. We're not asking for too much.

Smithfield Foods is proud of John Morrell and its strong focus on meeting customer demand for our products, ... The company's employees deserve special credit because their hard work and dedication in producing quality products made this investment in the community possible.

We are absolutely focused on growing this business in the categories that have better margins.

Cook's fits perfectly into our strategy of growing our higher-value processed meats products and utilizing our raw materials internally. This is a significant step in our goal of utilizing internally all of the hams from the hogs that we process.

August looks like it is going to be a good month for us, ... As we look into the fall season, hog prices have held up quite a bit stronger than others have predicted.

If you don't know the street names and routes, it's difficult to make a decision that will highly impact the citizens that the system serves.

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.