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-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, NSz6yfg05Uu0ODe1OUS0j91FOsvpywpPQzP3gE4uZguKTKMiWLVMHOQ2dEKC1RNU 4EXsbvBFDmt+0bqabLgeqg== 0001181431-10-049581.txt : 20101005 0001181431-10-049581.hdr.sgml : 20101005 20101005082505 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-10-049581 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20101004 FILED AS OF DATE: 20101005 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101005 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BROWN MICHAEL E. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502204 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-15321 FILM NUMBER: 101107737 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 COMMERCE STREET CITY: SMITHFIELD STATE: VA ZIP: 23430 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SMITHFIELD FOODS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000091388 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MEAT PACKING PLANTS [2011] IRS NUMBER: 520845861 STATE OF INCORPORATION: VA FISCAL YEAR END: 0427 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 COMMERCE STREET STREET 2: EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING CITY: SMITHFIELD STATE: VA ZIP: 23430 BUSINESS PHONE: 7573653000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 200 COMMERCE STREET STREET 2: EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING CITY: SMITHFIELD STATE: VA ZIP: 23430 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LIBERTY EQUITIES CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19710221 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LIBERTY REAL ESTATE TRUST DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19661113 3 1 rrd287391.xml FORM 3: PRESIDENT OF FARMLAND X0203 3 2010-10-04 0 0000091388 SMITHFIELD FOODS INC SFD 0001502204 BROWN MICHAEL E. C/O 200 COMMERCE STREET ANNEX SMITHFIELD VA 23430 0 1 0 0 President of Farmland Foods common stock, par value $.50 400 D common stock, par value $.50 1875 I Held in 401(K) Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 15.43 2017-06-21 common stock 10000 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 13.30 2016-07-06 common stock 15000 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 23.75 2013-06-16 2018-06-16 common stock 10000 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 32.40 2012-06-11 2017-06-11 common stock 25000 D Options vest ratably over three years beginning on 6/21/2011 Options vest ratably over three years beginning on 07/06/2010 Exhibit 24, Power of Attorney for Michael E. Brown, is made a part of this Form 3 Filing. /s/ Michael H. Cole, as Attorney-in-Fact 2010-10-05 EX-24.POA 2 rrd257624_291014.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd257624_291014.html

POWER OF ATTORNEY
       Know all men by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints Michael H. Cole and Darcy G. McKenzie, or either of them, with full power to each
of them to act alone, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, to:
(1)	execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf and submit to the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments
thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and
passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports
required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or
regulation of the SEC promulgated thereunder;
(2)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer
and/or director of Smithfield Foods, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Company"), any
and all Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder;
(3)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and
execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form or
amendment with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
(4)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing that, in
the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed
by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney
shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-
fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.
       The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper
to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-
in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The
undersigned acknowledges that neither the Company nor any of these attorneys is
assuming, nor shall any of them be responsible for, the undersigned's obligation to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the rules and regulations of the
SEC promulgated thereunder.
       This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned
in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 28th day of August, 2010.

							/s/ Michael E. Brown

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