Bay Area livestock ranchers, including 24 in Sonoma County, are welcoming this week’s opening of their own slaughterhouse that fills a critical gap created more than two years ago. The $1.2 million ...

Spokane Ag Show attendees will get an up-close look at Washington State University Spokane County Extension’s new meat processing mobile classroom. WSU Extension purchased the custom-built ...

SPOKANE — Spokane Ag Show attendees will get an up-close look at Washington State University Spokane County Extension’s new meat processing mobile classroom. WSU Extension purchased the custom-built ...

In July, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $500 million in new funds to expand meat processing capacity across the U.S., funds designed to be used to help small and medium processing operations.

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 ...

Bay Area livestock ranchers have opened their own slaughterhouse that fills a critical gap created more than two years ago. The $1.2 million mobile processing plant, with a gleaming white 36-foot-long ...

Lac qui Parle Valley High School and Ridgewater College are working together to give students hands-on experience in meat cutting with a mobile meat lab. Tucker Darville of MACCRAY High School in ...

A mobile meat-processing trailer was approved Thursday night for Reeves Road in Mechanicsville. It will be the only USDA-inspected operation for processing livestock in Southern Maryland. Johnny Knott ...

In what the Nebraska Environmental Action Coalition sees as a better meatpacking world, smaller livestock producers would not be at the mercy of the prices offered industry giants. At the same time, ...

Meat-cutting programs at Ridgewater College in Willmar and Central Lakes Community College in Staples are receiving a boost in the form of a $2.9 million grant to the Farmers Union Federation of St.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced funding to double the capacity of a meat processing facility in Perham.