HD3 Farms on Friday signed an agreement with Smithfield Foods to become once again become an independent pork producer.

<div class=\"default-font-wrapper\" style=\"line-height: 1;font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;\"><div style=\"line-height: 1;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;\"><span id=\"isPasted\" style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;\">HD3 Farms on Friday signed an agreement with Smithfield Foods to become once again become an independent pork producer.<br><br>HD3 for the past couple decades has been a contract hog producer for Smithfield. &nbsp;Smithfield is seeking to shed the number of hogs it directly owns before its Chinese parent company, WH Group, seeks to list Smithfield on a US stock exchange. &nbsp;WH Group is seeking to maintain a majority ownership of Smithfield.</span></span></div></div>