“I love giving back.” Local meat processor gives away free deer meat for the holidays

Deer meat isn’t your traditional holiday ham for a Christmas dinner, but a local meat processor in Galax was handing out bags ...
Daily Journal

Butler: Processing wild game meat yourself adds to hunting experience

Processing wild game meat is an element of being a hunter. It’s becoming harder to find quality deer processors. The good ones are so covered up in work, they can continue to raise prices but the ...
Forbes

How Meat Processing Workers Are Fighting For Safer Working Conditions

A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants safer for workers. The bill has ...
The Journal

High Plains region recipient of USDA meat processing grants

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 ...
Modern Farmer

Rancher Co-ops Offer Meat-Processing Solution For Small Farmers

It’s processing day for San Juan Island farmer Lori-Ann David. For her livestock, that means they’ll spend their morning as they typically would on the 100-acre Aurora Farms off the northern coast of ...
Civil Eats

This Farmer-Owned Meat Processing Co-op in Tennessee Changes the Game

Farmland makes up half the total acreage in Washington County, Tennessee. But this rolling landscape in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains does not allow for easy planting or plowing, so ...