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A mountain of meat has ended the longest rally in U.S. cattle prices since at least the 1960s, when baby boomers and McDonald’s Corp. ushered in the American burger boom.

JBS SA, the world’s largest beef producer, fell the most since 2009 after a report that former shareholder Grupo Bertin is involved in Brazil’s largest ever corruption scandal.

Saudi Arabia agreed to take a 20 percent stake in Minerva SA in a transaction that will raise as much as 1.56 billion reais ($390 million) for one of Brazil’s largest beef producers and help it gain better access to markets in the Middle East.

Canadian trade officials are not taking retaliatory tariffs off the table until the U.S. moves to repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for meat.

Congressional negotiators crafting a spending plan have agreed to a provision that would repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for U.S. meat, an attempt to stave off $1 billion in Canadian and Mexican retaliation against American goods.

The most-expensive meat in the world is getting a little cheaper to produce.

Congressional negotiators crafting a spending plan have agreed to a provision that would repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for U.S. meat, an attempt to stave off $1 billion in Canadian and Mexican retaliation against American goods.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri carried through on a campaign pledge by eliminating export taxes on agricultural goods including beef, wheat and corn while cutting a tariff on soybeans by 5 percentage points.

One of Australia’s most iconic cattle companies, with ranches that span an area more than twice the size of Switzerland, is being broken up to clear the way for a foreign takeover,

Financial and political turmoil that put Brazil on the brink of a depression also is contributing to one of the best years ever for domestic farmers.

Canadians may soon pay less at the supermarket for steak.

Cattle in the U.S. are now the fattest they’ve ever been, signaling an end to the seven-year run of record beef prices just as losses begin to mount for American feedlot owners.

Farmers across the fertile pampas are getting ready to empty silo bags of corn and soybeans after years of withholding part of their crop in anger over tax policies.

JBS SA’s third-quarter profit more than tripled as a currency slump in the Brazil real boosted revenues at the world’s largest meat producer.

China's building up their beef industry with cattle flown in from Australia.

Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat producer, dropped the most in more than two months after JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded its rating on the stock and the World Health Organization said eating processed meat is a cancer hazard.

U.S. retail costs for eggs and boneless sirloin steak rose to records in September, defying an increase in meat and poultry production that sent prices for chicken and other grades of beef lower.

California just passed a bill to sharply limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, making it the first state to ban the routine use of the drugs in animal agriculture.

 McDonald’s Corp., seeking to snap a sales slump by letting diners customize meals, is renaming its build-your-own burger program and replacing two unpopular flavors.

Organic foods are seizing shelf space in the fresh food sections of U.S. grocery stores, but struggling to break into the bread and meat aisles.

For JBS, the Venezuelan market now has special significance. It has a $2.1 billion contract and provides almost half the meat and a quarter of the chicken eaten by 28 million carnivorous Venezuelans.

McDonald’s Corp. gave a cool reaction to Burger King’s proposal to sell a hybrid “McWhopper” sandwich for charity, suggesting the two companies should aim higher in an attempt to “make a difference.

The growing appetite for bison is part of a wider trend toward organic foods, a small but expanding part of the food industry.

Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the U.S. for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.

Cargill Inc. said it’s still committed to its operations in emerging markets despite an economic slowdown that contributed to the agricultural-commodity producer and trader’s first quarterly loss in 14 years.

While he was a sensation on social media, the new Hamburglar didn’t succeed at his main job: promoting McDonald’s sirloin burgers.

The group aims to create a global top-10 veterinary drug business in five years by acquiring companies that give it access to the cattle and poultry industries in the U.S., Brazil and Australia.

Australia’s live cattle shipments to Indonesia are set to plunge this quarter after the biggest buyer cut its import quota by 80 percent to rely more on domestic supply.

Perdue Farms Inc. has attracted interest from potential domestic and international suitors as protein demand expands globally, although the third-largest U.S. chicken producer says it plans to continue as a family-owned business.

High-priced U.S. steakhouses are seeing lackluster sales this year as some corporate diners curb their appetite for porterhouse and rib-eye.

The latest international controversy is happening on your dinner plate. The question at issue: Do you have a right to know which country your steak came from?

Cattle supplies are so tight in Canada that meat plants are running at 74 percent of capacity, a seven-year low, forcing processors to pay a premium for animals to slaughter.

Beef from Ireland is making it's way across the Atlantic to the U.S. for the first time in nearly 20 years.

The Brazilian supplier of meat to McDonald’s Corp. and Burger King Worldwide Inc. led gains in the Ibovespa after selling its U.K. unit for about $1.5 billion.

Marfrig Global Foods SA bonds and shares soared after JBS SA agreed to buy its unit in the U.K. for about $1.5 billion to extend its push into processed foods.

Squeezed by 16 months of falling prices and a shrinking export market, French cattle ranchers turned to protests this week at 18 slaughterhouses around the country.

Best known for platinum records in the early 2000s that put a techno sheen on blues and soul, the 49-year-old is taking on the drought-stricken state’s $46.4 billion agriculture industry with a petition calling for restrictions on how much water farmers may use.

Flooding in Texas might help rebuild cowherds in the state and lower beef prices.

Details of a chicken killing spree come to light in a crime that looks to be retaliation for a payment program pitting farmer against farmer in an effort to stay profitable in the poultry business.

With the drought over, ranchers are preparing to expand U.S. herds that had shrunk to the smallest since 1952 and sent beef prices surging to records.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada’s largest alternative asset manager, reportedly has raised $300 million for a new agricultural fund targeting Brazilian farmland.

Reduced cattle production and beef consumption has been negatively impacting the leather industry.

Global beef prices may decline on rising U.S. pork and poultry supply and on signs that demand from some emerging markets is weakening, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. said.

JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, surged after China officially removed an embargo on beef imports from Brazil, the world’s biggest beef exporter. Marfrig Global Foods SA and Minerva SA also posted strong gains.

JBS SA, which became the biggest meat company in the world by spending $5 billion to buy U.S. companies, says U.S. assets remain attractive with the dollar’s rally against emerging-market currencies just getting started.

Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. chicken processor, said the primary effect of the current avian influenza outbreak has been lost export sales and that the company can cope with the resulting change in poultry supplies.

There once was a time when McDonald’s was just a restaurant. “Billions” weren’t part of the brand or the plan or the problem.

Tyson Foods will phase out human antibiotics in the chickens it raises by by September 2017, playing catch-up with Perdue, which reports 95 percent of its chickens already are grown without them.

One of the world's largest ranches and 155,000 cattle are up for sale.

Ikea dished out a vegan-friendly version of its famed Swedish meatballs on Wednesday, aiming to lure more shoppers to furniture stores that already sell close to a billion meatballs a year.