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

SPUR Program will provide up to $500M in payments to eligible beef processors who have faced increased costs of acquiring ...

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.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching a financial relief program for smaller meatpackers that rely on the nation’s ...

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 ...

Thousands of family farms raise beef cattle in Ohio. But the state has far fewer meat processing businesses. One southeast ...

EDGELEY, N.D. — Sitting around a breakfast table in a diner on Main Street, five friends slowly sipped their morning coffee. The group had managed to escape their farms, ranches and other ...

For years, many ranchers have blamed meatpacking giants for low cattle prices. Now, some cattlemen say they have a solution: Process the beef themselves. On 80 acres in western Nebraska, a group of ...