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 ...

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

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 ...