Four big meatpackers control most of the beef slaughter. Farm groups say less market competition means lower prices for cattle. But new company Cattlemen’s Heritage plans to build a facility on the ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in early June sent a letter to the U.S. Senate and House Agriculture committees to address areas of concern in the cattle and beef industry. The association ...

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom ...

Some strains of E. coli can lead to severe food poisoning. Learn how it travels from farm to plate, and what you can do to ...

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.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A possible beef-processing plant in Lincoln County would be much smaller than its national counterparts and larger than a typical small-town locker. East Dakota Beef had ...

A proposed 8,000-head-per-day beef processing facility in South Dakota is joining a packed roster of planned and existing plants that could be forced to compete for shrinking cattle inventories in the ...