The Agriculture Department aims to offer up to $500 million in payments as meat processors navigate a livestock shortage.

The Agriculture Department will offer small and mid-sized beef processors up to $500 million to help them weather a historic cattle shortage, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday.

A shrunken U.S. beef herd has forced meat processors into a bidding war for a dwindling supply of animals, making it harder ...

R-CALF USA today welcomed recent U.S. Department of Agriculture initiatives aimed at strengthening independent beef processing by reducing regulatory burdens, expanding processing capacity and helping ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian meatpacker JBS is prepared for a likely shift in the country's cattle cycle that could lead to reduced availability of animals for slaughter next year, an executive ...

Lisa and Oscar Mayorga are part of a family ranch in Montana that sells grass-fed beef direct to consumers. The ranch has about 100 cows. “We do organic, grass-fed and grass-finished so the cattle don ...

Just four companies dominate about 85% of the beef processing market, which means higher prices for consumers and lower returns for the people raising the animals. Some ranchers and cattle feeders are ...

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. meat producer Tyson Foods Inc said on Friday it will soon discontinue cattle slaughter at its Emporia, Kansas, plant as part of a restructuring because the U.S. cattle ...

ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Agriculture and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation has opened the Maryland Livestock Processing Equipment Grant Program to help assist with the expansion of ...