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Cargill Meat Solutions will add 300 employees during a $50 million expansion of the company’s Fresno, Calif., beef processing facility.
Food safety relies on livestock bedding more than you would think.
There were 4.7% fewer cattle in feedlots this March compared to 2013.
The state of South Dakota pitched in approximately $4.3 million to assists the idled Northern Beef packing plant.
State from Iowa officials on Friday approved tax credits for developers to reopen a long-closed meatpacking plant in Tama that would eventually employ about 600 workers.
Fed cattle continue pace with a sixth month of record highs.
Traditional roasts cuts are now finding a new home at the center of consumer plates.
Country of origin labeling (COOL) has been vilified for quite some time; an end might be in sight.
Quality characteristics, tenderness and value of beef are similar from steers and heifers.
Friday’s jobs report was somewhat encouraging. More people with jobs is positive for meat demand.
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.
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.
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.
A bankruptcy judge has set a closing date for the sale of a failed South Dakota beef packing plant.
The challenge is the drug aids efficiency but raises incidences of death.
Tyson Foods has changed its plans and has decided to keep open its beef plant in Denison, Iowa.
Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter, according to the latest federal statistics.
A congressman says federal officials have launched a criminal probe of a Northern California slaughterhouse that recently recalled more than 8.7 million pounds of beef.
A Utah company is recalling about 90,000 pounds of beef jerky products that were mislabeled and didn’t list on the packaging the ingredient soy lecithin, an allergen.
South Dakota’s former economic development director used his public position to help his future private employer get a bigger grant for a struggling beef processing plant, according to a state audit released Thursday.
A North Dakota company has recalled more than a ton of beef franks due to misbranding.
NuAgra, a Brookings, S.D. based company, has begun selling grass-fed South Dakota beef directly to households throughout the United States — and the company’s beef starts out in central South Dakota.
The Cargill beef packing plant in Dodge City, Kan. was back in full production by the end of last week following a fire in the kill floor area.
Cargill Inc. says it will start labeling beef products that contain “finely textured beef,” following last year’s public outcry over the use of “pink slime.”
A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a circuit judge to throw out a defamation lawsuit related to its coverage of a meat product called lean, finely textured beef, which critics have dubbed “pink slime.”
Less than two years into a sweeping five-year study focused on prevention of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in beef, researchers at Kansas State University and elsewhere are making progress on several fronts.