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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With 100% of processing plants reporting foreign material challenges, the beef industry is turning to live-animal detection to prevent $476 million annually in potential losses.