The HMSA applies to the roughly 166 million livestock killed each year at approximately 800 federally inspected slaughter plants, and to a much smaller number of animals killed at approximately 1,900 ...

The Beef Profit Tracker from Sterling Marketing shows both feedlot and packer margins improved last week with slaughter up ...

Without such inspection, horse slaughter plants cannot legally operate ... most arrive at the slaughterhouse via livestock auctions, where unsuspecting owners sell the animals to slaughterhouse ...

Last week’s national adult cattle slaughter dropped sharply, as a result of direct and indirect impacts from Cyclone Alfred ...

MTN tagged along with a mobile livestock butcher to see what the process of slaughtering animals involves.

For large-scale farmers who deliver birds to a slaughter plant make sure the logistics are well planned and that the truck drivers and the plant are in total agreement on bird collection time and ...

The plant has 3,600 workers. Slaughter capacity was already a concern heading into this week as packers bought relatively few cattle on the cash market last week. Analysts say most packer needs ...