Pastures are turning green, which means it’s time to work cows and calves. Achieving the best results with vaccines requires using the correct syringes and needles, good management practices and ...

Recent livestock processing plant closures in the High Plains region have generated headlines, but agricultural economists note they occur because of tight margins. Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson ...

The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes and changed the way Americans purchase and ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

A proposed 8,000-head-per-day beef processing facility in South Dakota is joining a packed roster of planned and existing plants that could be forced to compete for shrinking cattle inventories in the ...

Tucked away behind the trees along Bendigo Boulevard in the Snoqualmie Valley, Lulu Redder and her farmhand stand underneath two canopies, processing chickens five at a time, with Redder’s two dogs ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — In an effort to increase beef processing capacity in South Carolina -- and to create a South Carolina-branded beef product -- a group of cattle farmers in the state have formed the SC ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Colorado’s cattle are getting fat. A backlog at processing plants means ranchers who raise the cattle don’t have anywhere to take them when they’re fully grown. That means they ...