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Mars says a miscommunication with a subcontractor led to a defective batch of its Skittles, reportedly on their way to becoming cattle feed, ending up scattered across a highway.
A Nebraska chicken processing plant is under scruitiny for possible water contamination risks down river in Iowa.
President Donald Trump’s vow to accelerate construction of a “contiguous, physical wall” along the Mexican border is slamming into a Washington reality _ who’s going to pay for it and how?
Wyoming may have its first USDA licensed packing plant.
Waste flows downhill, and that’s what worries folks in Hendricks, Minn.
Supporters of cattleman and anti-federal government figure Cliven Bundy are protesting a presidential decision to give national monument protection to public land where Bundy grazes cows near his southern Nevada ranch.
R-CALF has been ruled in favor against the USDA on the use of beef checkoff funds.
A pair of bulls in Montana have tested positive for brucellosis.
Tyson Foods is planning to create a venture fund that would develop innovations for feeding the globe.
Texas ranchers have 600,000 more cattle and calves than they did two years ago, according to the Texas Cattle Feeders Association. Packing plants have less competition and plenty of cattle to choose from, so they’ve dropped the amount they’re willing to pay for wholesale cattle.