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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That’s a 25% reduction in pork slaughter capacity and 10% reduction in beef slaughter capacity according to the UFCWU, the union that covers the packing industry. Reports out of the White House to ...

California is not likely to suffer a beef shortage as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic but the industry's processing plants and distribution chain are already heavily strained, a group of ...