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A rebuilding cattle herd and foreign demand have taken the beef industry to prices not seen since 1987.
A San Francisco company has finalized purchase of the failed Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen, S.D.
A manager of a Cabell County, W. Va., meat processing shop says 10 cattle belonging to customers have been stolen from the shop’s livestock pens.
Greeley, Colorado’s JBS USA meat-packing plant has promised to take steps to prevent animal cruelty after a worker struggled to kill an injured cow.
Federal officials have approved a Northern California company’s plans to take over a shuttered slaughterhouse that was at the center of a major beef recall.
There are more cattle on feed in South Dakota now than last year.
A steer that made a break for it while on the way to slaughter in North Dakota has been adopted by a Michigan farm animal sanctuary and spared from the butcher knife.
Officials in the central Iowa town of Tama are optimistic that an idle beef processing plant will reopen soon and add hundreds of jobs.
A bankruptcy judge has set a closing date for the sale of a failed South Dakota beef packing plant.
Tyson Foods has changed its plans and has decided to keep open its beef plant in Denison, Iowa.