For Pennsylvania rancher Michael Kovach, the lack of slaughter facilities near his farm has been a burden for many years. Kovach sells his pork, beef, lamb and chicken onsite at his own farm stand.

Cattle inventories stay low while beef demand remains strong. Market volatility is expected as producers weigh herd expansion ...

The long-feared rightsizing of shackle spaces to more closely match the number of cattle has begun. “The market’s reaction to the November announcement was a good reminder that market volatility still ...

The Ekiti State Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) has trained butchers, meat processors on modern slaughtering procedures and standards. The participants selected from ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — A new federal program for grading beef quality could add hundreds of dollars of value per head of cattle in Baker County and elsewhere. The remote grading pilot program, which ...

Slaughter rates are returning to near normal and weekly beef and pork production is exceeding year ago levels, but it wasn’t that long ago that consumers were emptying grocery store shelves and ...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest wants schools to stop serving beef. Better safe than sorry, what with mad cow disease turning up in the United States last month, the group reasoned in a ...

The state of Iowa has committed $14 million to Iowa Premium to help it expand its Tama beef processing plant and add nearly 400 jobs. Iowa Premium, which National Beef acquired in 2019, wants to ...

Officials in Spencer are considering a new ordinance that could permit a meat locker or other business within city limits to process more types of meat. Don Hemphill, legal counsel for the City of ...

Beef carcasses in a meat processing plant. Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives would allow livestock auction companies to invest in small and regional processing plants. BAKER CITY ...