The growing demand for locally raised, pasture-fed meat is confronted by a lack of high-quality, humane, and regional processing plants. Even the USDA has gotten involved in identifying where outreach ...

Southeast King County farmers want to sell their beef and pork to local restaurants and markets. But for them to do that, they have to take the animals back and forth to Eastern Washington because ...

As first reported by Food Safety News last month, as part of their ongoing Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food effort, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS ...

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to ...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 -Findings from a USDA Economic Research Service ERS report suggest that access to federal or state-inspected slaughter and processing facilities is limited in some parts of ...

M.D. Stittsworth Co., a family-owned butcher shop out of Bemidji, announced Friday that it would spend nearly $1.9 million and create 26 jobs in effort to expand its business into the wholesale market ...

As I read your article about the mobile slaughter trailer I couldn’t help but think this might be the answer to the surplus wild (feral) horse problem faced by the Bureau of Land Management. They are ...

A new bill introduced by Assemblyman Marc Levine would make it legal in California for mobile units to slaughter goats, sheep and swine at farm and ranch sites instead of having to send them miles ...