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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000091388-09-000033
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		4
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20090706
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20090710
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20090710

FILER:

	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

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-15321
		FILM NUMBER:		09940466

	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
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officers, including the six named executive officers, under the Company&#8217;s 2008
Incentive Compensation Plan (the &#8220;2008 Plan&#8221;).&#160;&#160;The Compensation
Committee also approved a performance-based cash award for one executive officer
under the 2008 Plan.&#160;&#160;A summary of these awards is set forth in
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performance share unit award are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2,
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly
authorized.</font></font></div>
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terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award, the right and option to
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Subject to Option above at the Exercise Price above.&#160;&#160;The Exercise
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Participant suffers a Disability or dies, or in the event of the Participant&#8217;s
Retirement, the requirement that the Participant be employed by the Company
through the Vesting Date is waived.&#160;&#160;In that case, the Participant (or
in the event of the Participant&#8217;s death, the Participant&#8217;s beneficiary) shall be
vested in a pro rata portion of the Option equal to the number of full months of
employment since the Date of Grant divided by thirty-six (36).&#160;&#160;The
remaining portion of the Option shall be forfeited.</font></div>
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Company for any reason other than the Participant&#8217;s Disability or death during
the Performance Period, the Participant shall forfeit any unvested portion of
the Option.&#160;&#160;The Participant&#8217;s transfer of employment to the Company
or any Related Company from another Related Company or the Company during the
Performance Period shall not constitute a termination of
employment.</font></div>
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the Qualifying Change of Control.</font></div>
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portion of the Option shall be fully exercisable until the seventh anniversary
of the Date of Grant when the Option will terminate by its terms.</font></div>
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      and Payment for Shares</font>.&#160;&#160;The Option may be exercised by
      giving notice of the exercise under procedures established by the Company
      and making payment of the Exercise Price as follows.&#160;&#160;To pay the
      Exercise Price, the Participant (i), unless prohibited by law, may deliver
      a properly executed exercise notice together with irrevocable instructions
      to a broker to deliver promptly to the Company, from the sale or loan
      proceeds with respect to the sale of Company Stock or a loan secured by
      Company Stock, the amount necessary to pay the Exercise Price and
      Applicable Withholding Taxes, (ii) may deliver shares of Company Stock for
      which the holder thereof has good title, free and clear of all liens and
      encumbrances (valued at their Fair Market Value on the date of exercise)
      in satisfaction of all or any part of the Exercise Price, or (iii) may
      cause to be withheld from the Option shares, shares of Company Stock
      (valued at their Fair Market Value on the date of exercise) in
      satisfaction of all or any part of the Exercise
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Termination of Employment</font>. The right of Participant and his successors in
interest to exercise this Option shall terminate immediately when his employment
with the Company or any Subsidiary is terminated for any reason except as
provided in subsections 3(a), 3(b) and 3(c) below. </font></div>
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      Death</font>. In the event Participant dies while he is employed by the
      Company or any Subsidiary, before the exercise in full or expiration of
      this Option, Participant&#8217;s estate, or the person or persons to whom the
      rights under this Option shall have passed by will or the laws of descent
      and distribution, may exercise the vested portion of this Option at any
      time within one year after Participant&#8217;s death (but in any event before
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      Disability</font>. In the event of termination of Participant&#8217;s employment
      by the Company or any Subsidiary by reason of disability under the
      Company&#8217;s Retirement Plan, Participant may exercise the vested portion of
      this Option at any time within one year following such termination of
      employment (but in any event before the Expiration Date of the Option).
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      Termination of Employment Other Than Death or Disability</font>. In the
      event Participant&#8217;s termination of employment with the Company or any
      Subsidiary (including due to retirement) occurs for reasons other than
      death, or disability and before the exercise in full or expiration of this
      Option, Participant may exercise the vested portion of this Option at any
      time within three months next following such termination of employment
      (but in any event before the Expiration Date of the Option).
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purposes of this Section 3, it shall not be considered a termination of
employment if Participant is placed by the Company or any Subsidiary on military
or sick leave or such other type of leave of absence that the Committee
considers as continuing the employment relationship intact. At the time of any
exercise of any Option exercised pursuant to this Section 3, the Exercise Price
shall be paid in full as provided in Section 2.</font></div>
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shall have the power and the right to deduct or withhold Company Stock, or
require the Participant or beneficiary to remit to the Company, an amount
sufficient to satisfy federal, state, and local taxes, domestic or foreign,
required by law or regulation to be withheld with respect to any taxable event
arising as a result of this Award.</font></div>
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Performance Share Units may not be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or
otherwise alienated or hypothecated, other than by will or by the laws of
descent and distribution.</font></div>
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the rights of the Participant hereunder are subject to all the terms and
conditions of the Plan, as the same may be amended from time to time, as well as
to such rules and regulations as the Committee may adopt for administration of
the Plan. It is expressly understood that the Committee is authorized to
administer, construe, and make all determinations necessary or appropriate to
the administration of the Plan and this Award, all of which shall be binding
upon the Participant.</font></div>
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follows:&#160;&#160;</font></div>
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      Participant shall acquire the shares of Company Stock issuable with
      respect to the Option for investment purposes only and not with a view to
      resale or other distribution thereof to the public in violation of the
      Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;1933 Act&#8221;), and shall not dispose
      of any such Stock in transactions which, in the opinion of counsel to the
      Company, violate the 1933 Act, or the rules and regulations thereunder, or
      any applicable state securities or &#8220;blue sky&#8221;
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the Plan.&#160;&#160;All capitalized terms shall have the meanings in the
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Vesting</font>. Subject to the remaining terms and conditions of this Agreement,
the number of Performance Share Units to be vested under this Award shall be
based upon the Company&#8217;s Profits Before Tax (as defined below) during each
Fiscal Year (as defined below) during the Performance
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a whole.&#160;&#160;A Fiscal Year is the fiscal year used by the Company for
accounting purposes.</font></div>
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as provided in the next paragraph, the Participant shall be eligible for vesting
and payment of earned Performance Share Units, as specified in Section 3, only
if the Participant&#8217;s employment with the Company continues through the Vesting
Date and the Performance Target has been achieved.&#160;&#160;</font></div>
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Participant suffers a Disability or dies, or in the event of the Participant&#8217;s
Retirement, the requirement that the Participant be employed by the Company
through the Vesting Date is waived.&#160;&#160;In that case, the Participant (or
in the event of the Participant&#8217;s death, the Participant&#8217;s beneficiary) shall be
vested in a pro rata portion of the number of Performance Share Units equal to
the number of full months of employment since the Date of Grant divided by
thirty-six (36), subject to the achievement of the Performance
Target.</font></div>
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Company for any reason other than the Participant&#8217;s Disability or death during
the Performance Period, the Participant shall forfeit any unvested portion of
this Award, with no payment to the Participant.&#160;&#160;The Participant&#8217;s
transfer of employment to the Company or any Related Company from another
Related Company or the Company during the Performance Period shall not
constitute a termination of employment.</font></div>
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Company Stock until any such shares are delivered to the Participant on or
following a Payment Date. </font></div>
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Performance Share Units</font>. Payment of the vested Performance Share Units
shall be made in Company Stock.&#160;&#160;Payment for vested Performance Share
Units shall be made on or as soon as administratively practicable (but in any
event no later than 2 &#189; months) following the later of (a) the Vesting Date or
(b) the end of the Fiscal Year in which the Performance Target is met.
</font></div>
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shall have the power and the right to deduct or withhold Company Stock, or
require the Participant or beneficiary to remit to the Company, an amount
sufficient to satisfy federal, state, and local taxes, domestic or foreign,
required by law or regulation to be withheld with respect to any taxable event
arising as a result of this Award.</font></div>
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Performance Share Units may not be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or
otherwise alienated or hypothecated, other than by will or by the laws of
descent and distribution.</font></div>
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the rights of the Participant hereunder are subject to all the terms and
conditions of the Plan, as the same may be amended from time to time, as well as
to such rules and regulations as the Committee may adopt for administration of
the Plan. It is expressly understood that the Committee is authorized to
administer, construe, and make all determinations necessary or appropriate to
the administration of the Plan and this Award, all of which shall be binding
upon the Participant. </font></div>
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Shares</font>.&#160;&#160;The Participant hereby agrees with the Company as
follows:&#160;&#160;</font></div>
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      Units shall be registered under the 1933 Act, no public offering
      (otherwise than on a national securities exchange, as defined in the
      Exchange Act) of any such Stock shall be made by the Participant under
      such circumstances that he or she (or such other person) may be deemed an
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Act.</font></div>
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      all unvested Performance Share Units granted under this Award shall be
      fully vested and payment for vested Performance Share Units shall be made
      immediately, without regard to the attainment of the Performance
      Target.&#160;&#160;The date of a Qualifying Change of Control shall be
      considered a Vesting Date for purposes of this
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      Shares</font>. Subject to Plan Section 16, in the event of any merger,
      reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, stock split,
      extraordinary distribution with respect to the Stock or other change in
      corporate structure affecting the Stock, the Committee or Board if
      Directors of the Company may make such substitution or adjustments in the
      aggregate number and kind of shares of Company Stock subject to this
      Performance Share Unit Award as it may determine, in its sole discretion,
      to prevent dilution or enlargement of
  rights.&#160;&#160;</font></div>
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      notice required or permitted under this Award shall be deemed given when
      delivered personally, as appropriate, either to the Participant or to the
      Executive Compensation Department of the Company, or when deposited in a
      United States Post Office as registered mail, postage prepaid, addressed,
      as appropriate, either to the Participant at his or her address set forth
      above or such other address as he or she may designate in writing to the
      Company, or to the Attention: Corporate Secretary, at its headquarters
      office or such other address as the Company may designate in writing to
      the Participant.</font></div>
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      Award shall be governed by and construed according to the internal law,
      and not the law of conflicts, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, except that
      questions concerning the relative rights of the Company and the
      Participant with respect to Shares, shall be governed by the corporate law
      of the Commonwealth of
Virginia.</font></font></div>
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      all respects governed by the Plan and subject to all of the terms and
      provisions thereof, whether such terms and provisions are incorporated in
      this Award solely by reference or expressly cited herein.&#160;&#160;If
      there is any inconsistency between the terms of this Award and the terms
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____________, 2009.</font></div>
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<DESCRIPTION>SUMMARY OF COMPENSATION
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2009</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.4pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, serif"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000">Effective July 6, 2009, the Compensation
Committee awarded stock options and/or performance share units to certain
executive officers, including the</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000"> following </font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000">six named executive officers, under the
Company&#8217;s 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan (the &#8220;2008
Plan&#8221;).</font></font></div>
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                <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.4pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000">C. Larry
    Pope</font></font></div>
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      IV</font></font></div>
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    Dubois</font></font></div>
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      have a seven-year term and vest ratably over three years. The exercise
      price for these options is $13.30 which was the closing share price on the
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      performance share unit awards were granted effective July 6, 2009 pursuant
      to the 2008 Plan.&#160;&#160;For any performance share units to vest, the
      Company must achieve Profits Before Tax (as such term is defined in the
      grant letter) of at least $100 million in any one of the Company&#8217;s 2010,
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Committee</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000"> approved a
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Co</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000">mpany&#8217;s chief executive
officer,</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000"> C. La</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #000000">rry Pope, under the 2008 Plan related to
our previously announced Pork Group restructuring.&#160;&#160;Under the award,
Mr. Pope will receive a one-time cash payment of $1.5 million upon the
Compensation Committee&#8217;s certification that all of the following conditions have
been fulfilled:</font></font></div>
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      last day of the third quarter of fiscal 2010 through and including the end
      of fiscal 2010, the Company achieves operating efficiencies in the Pork
      Group determined as an annualized projected cost savings run rate of $90
      million compared to the annualized Pork Group cost run rate on May 3,
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