U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced July 11 that the Biden-Harris administration is making investments that will strengthen American food supply chains, increase independent ...

A highly concentrated beef market has meant higher prices for consumers and lower returns for the people raising the animals. Some ranchers in the Midwest and Great Plains want a new option by ...

TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico ranchers will soon have an easier way to get their beef to tables locally and across the U.S. through a meat processing facility in Taos, the first of its kind for the ...

VALLEY, Wash. — Jim Paladin estimates it will cost about $25,000 to build a beef processing facility on his farm. In the meantime, he has spent about $7,000 to convert an old shop for butchering and ...

Just four companies dominate about 85% of the beef processing market, which means higher prices for consumers and lower returns for the people raising the animals. Some ranchers and cattle feeders are ...

The new ag lab at Wessington Springs High School is bright with stainless steel, cold like a meat locker and spotlessly clean. The equipment is poised and ready to ...

WAUBUN, Minn. — “We aren’t dummies,” Paul Benson said to his best friend Doyle Turner several years ago as the two discussed how they should start a business from the ground up that could be ...

A meat processing company will invest more than $1.7 million to build a new 3,000-square-foot building on a three-acre site in the Price Edward County Business park in Farmville. The company, 5 Pillar ...