Detailed sustainability results for fiscal 2012 can be found at the newly updated www.smithfieldcommitments.com.

Sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 were $3.1 billion, steady with the prior year.

Smithfield Foods Inc. announced that a third-party audit of its Environmental Management System (EMS) at Murphy-Brown LLC facilities found 'zero' non-conformances.

Taste of Smithfield will feature Smithfield pork products, including Smithfield Innovation Kitchen Specials and Windsor Castle Box Lunches.

Murphy-Brown LLC, the livestock production subsidiary for Smithfield Foods, managed more than 450 company-owned farms nationwide without incurring a single environmental notice of violation.

Fiscal 2012 sales increased 7% to $13.1 billion.

The company notes that the world population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050.

Wall Street bankers are trying to drum up interest in Sara Lee Corp.'s North American meat business, according to Smithfield Foods Inc.

Sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 were $3.5 billion, up 9%, resulting from higher average unit selling prices and volumes in the Pork segment.

By the end of this year, 30 percent of the sows at its farms will be in group housing instead of crates.