The facility, which will also produce packaged meats, will replace a more than 100-year-old plant in South Dakota and provide ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Smithfield Foods will vacate the site of its pork processing plant near downtown Sioux Falls and build a ...

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known ...

While U.S. cattle herd size contracts, feedlot sectors in South America, Africa, and Australia expand, reshaping where the ...

U.S. agribusiness Cargill will permanently close its beef processing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and eliminate 221 jobs, according to a filing with the state, the latest U.S. beef plant to be ...

By Karl Plume CHICAGO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness Cargill will permanently close its beef processing facility in ...

But it’s not that simple: The US cattle herd has shrunk in recent years to the smallest since the early 1950s because droughts and higher production costs, including elevated interest rates, have made ...

As carcass weights hit new highs, experts warn that efficiency gains bring unintended welfare risks in transport, feedlots ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

A small Midwestern town is facing an economic shock that could reshape it for decades. Tyson Foods is closing its massive beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, a city with just 10,000 residents, in early ...

Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued proposed rules to gut slaughterhouse line speed regulations at poultry and pork processing facilities. If finalized, the poultry rule would allow ...

Last year, six hog farms in the state were the first to get funding from California’s program to offset its emissions from ...