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Tyson Foods Inc. has announced a proposal to build a new processing facility near its existing poultry plant in Green Forest, Ark.

The fifth generation of Careys is still ranching in the Boulder Valley, Mont., after buying their first land here in 1896.

The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train last month in Kansas that injured more than two dozen people occurred at a site where there had been damage to the track that has been traced to a grain truck, federal authorities said Thursday.

Firefighters battling a large wildfire in northwestern Oklahoma caught a break Thursday from diminished winds, but forecasters warned that other areas of the Midwest are at risk for pop-up fires because of dry air and strong gusts.

A Montana bull has sold for $350,000 at auction.

The agricultural loss from the March flooding across Louisiana could top $15 million, according to an economist with the LSU AgCenter.

The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources is allowing a beef processing plant to use treated wastewater for irrigation.

A cow on a Montana ranch has delivered healthy triplet calves, a rare occurrence that happens only once in 105,000 live births.

Attorneys for imprisoned kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin say they have found "overwhelming evidence" of prosecutorial misconduct that proves his 27-year prison sentence for money laundering is too harsh.

An employee of a Northern California slaughterhouse has been sentenced to three months in prison in a scheme that processed beef cattle with cancer.

The South Dakota State University Extension wants to teach landowners ways to properly plan for and conduct a prescribed fire.

When Mark Gardiner looks across his pastures here on the southern Kansas plains, he doesn't see the average bull. These animals are superstars.

A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, an investigator said Tuesday.

Once they roamed the range. Now they compete in shows.

A rancher has been sentenced in South Dakota to one year in prison after admitting that he falsely claimed losing over a hundred cattle during the autumn blizzard of 2013.

Juniata College has taken ownership of more than 300 acres in Bedford County after a farm was donated by Altoona couple Jack L. and Carolyn A. Sparks.

Since the 2011 meltdowns ended their future as prized black "wagyu" beef, a rancher near the Fukushima nuclear power plant has given his cattle a new mission: They've become protesters.

Two men connected to a Northern California slaughterhouse have been sentenced for their part in a nationwide meat recall two years ago.

A businessman who is considered a pioneer in the U.S. halal foods industry was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for committing fraud in exporting beef products to Malaysia and Indonesia.

Ammon Bundy and another 15 defendants pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal conspiracy charges related to the 41-day occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge. Several of the accused, however, expressed doubt that they enjoy the presumption of innocence.

Concerns about running cattle on federal land are reaching livestock owners in California.

A referendum on raising the fees Missouri cattle farmers pay has cleared its first legal challenge, though a final court decision still remains weeks away.

The Missouri Rural Crisis Center and two farmers are suing the Missouri Department of Agriculture to halt a referendum on higher fees for cattle farmers.

If old gray corral boards could talk, Johnny Holloway figures they'd have a tale to tell at the stockyards and railroad crossing known as Mossman.

The co-owner of a Northern California slaughterhouse at the center of a nationwide food recall two years ago has been sentenced to federal prison.

A court decision will prevent a horse slaughter operation from opening in New Mexico after the state's lengthy legal battle.

Steve Gabel has spent more than 20 years building his magnum opus: a cattle feedlot.

Supporters of a prominent businessman and Muslim community leader packed a federal courtroom Friday to ask a judge to spare him prison time for committing fraud in exporting halal beef products to Malaysia and Indonesia.

Kentucky's top agriculture official says the state's beef cattle industry will not be hindered by a fire that destroyed a seven-acre auction house on Saturday.

The purpose of the once-a-decade Great Florida Cattle Drive was to draw attention to Florida's deep cowboy history at a time when the state is known more for Disney World fantasies, South Beach flashiness, Panama City Beach spring break rowdiness and Cape Canaveral rocket launches. 

Some cowboys had selfie-sticks, and others posted regularly on Facebook while helping to herd more than 400 head of cattle more than 50 miles through central Florida.

A massive fire destroyed a 70-year-old beef cattle auction business in Lexington, Ky. on Saturday, churning up a plume of thick, black smoke that darkened the skies for miles as the wind-whipped flames consumed several nearby businesses.

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says the number of cattle in large Nebraska feedlots is down 2 percent compared to January of last year.

Chris and Claire Johnson are raising a herd of uniquely colored and textured cattle at their Buffalo Dream Ranch in far northwestern Comanche County near the western boundary of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says the number of cattle and calves in large Iowa feedlots is unchanged from last year.

Two brothers leading an armed group that has taken up residence for nearly three weeks at a national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon plan to hold a ceremony Saturday for ranchers to renounce federal control of public land and tear up their grazing contracts.

Every job outdoors gets harder in extreme cold, but few have it tougher than cattle farmers. And it's not just the cold snaps that grind agricultural operations to a churning slog, but also the brief warm-ups, which are proving difficult for Pennsylvania farmers.

A leader of the small, armed group of people occupying a remote national wildlife preserve in Oregon said Tuesday they will go home when a plan is in place to turn over management of federal lands to locals.

A Minnesota meat company is recalling some beef products that may be contaminated with wood.

 U.S. consumers will now find it harder to learn where their beef or pork was born, raised and slaughtered.

The state of Tennessee had four cougar sightings in 2015, the first confirmed in about 100 years. Does this mean there could be cougars in Alabama?

How far have vegan alternatives come to tasting like the real thing? Not far enough, according to a panel that tasted some options for The Associated Press.

About 150 workers, most of them immigrants from Somalia, have been fired from a Colorado meat packing plant after walking off the job during a dispute over workplace prayer.

Authorities are trying to find who killed a cow in a Guthrie County, Iowa pasture and cut it in half.

A meat processing plant in northeast Iowa has recalled a beef product due to the possibility of contamination.  

South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals reported 245,000 cattle on feed on December 1, up 4 percent from last year.

An Iowa farmer has found a niche market for his beef.  

A cattle feeding operation in Walla Walla County, Wash. has been fined $50,000 for failing to manage air pollution.

The two groups that represent North Dakota's ranchers have different thoughts on whether Congress should change the "country of origin" meat-labeling rules or do away with them altogether.

Mexico has pledged to enact almost $228 million in punitive tariffs on U.S. apples, dairy, liquor and hygiene products, in retaliation for U.S. country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork and poultry.