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Texas ranchers have voted to establish a state-level program to promote and market beef in the nation’s leading cattle-producing state.
A nonprofit group that supports small and family farms in Kansas is trying to build support for a meat processing facility and food hub project in the eastern part of the state.
The last beef-packing plant in South St. Paul, Minn., says it’s temporarily shutting down to an “extremely short supply of cattle.”
A shuttered Kansas processing plant that produced a treated ground beef product critics dubbed “pink slime” plans to reopen next week with limited operations amid rebounding sales.
State officials say Raber’s Packing Co. of Peoria, Ill., is recalling 21 pounds of its beef jerky because it was not inspected.
A Maine company is recalling more than 25,000 pounds of beef dating to last November for failure to remove tissues that could potentially allow transmission of mad cow disease.
Two Massachusetts Whole Foods Market stores are recalling 368 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
The man in charge of resurrecting a scandal-marred beef plant that has sat idle since 2012 is optimistic about the Aberdeen, S.D., facility’s future.
A case of suspected mad cow disease has been found in Romanian beef, officials said Wednesday.
Tyson Foods Inc. has signed a definitive deal to purchase Hillshire Brands Co. for $7.75 billion.