Figure 1 shows weekly cattle slaughter by federally inspected plants since 2020. From 2020 to 2024, cattle slaughter largely remained between 600,000 and 700,000 head per week, but it has dipped to ...

Packer margins rebound from $350 losses as choice cutout jumps $10.70 while slaughter remains tight despite available capacity nationwide.

USDA’s semi-annual cattle inventory report confirmed the smallest herd in 75 years. This comes as the cattle industry is still healing from consecutive years of drought, but the surprise is that ...

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 ...

Thousands of union workers at the JBS Greeley, Colo., plant went on strike Monday calling for higher wages, safer working ...

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, March 19 (Reuters) - Massive wildfires have burned vast swaths of grazing lands in Nebraska, endangering cattle producers' plans for production increases that could help ease ...