A proposed 8,000-head-per-day beef processing facility in South Dakota is joining a packed roster of planned and existing plants that could be forced to compete for shrinking cattle inventories in the ...

JBS executives have warned that the U.S. beef industry has more processing capacity than current cattle supplies can support.

The overall number of U.S. beef and dairy cattle has shrunk to its lowest level since 1951. Drought, rising operating costs and increased consolidation are among the causes.

The world’s largest meatpacker, is preparing to close a beef-processing plant in Pennsylvania, the latest facility to close ...

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 ...

Back in the early 2000s, this common method for processing beef was outlawed in the United States after some valid concerns.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — In an effort to increase beef processing capacity in South Carolina -- and to create a South Carolina-branded beef product -- a group of cattle farmers in the state have formed the SC ...

Pingliang red cattle are raised in modern barns at Zhongbin Pingliang Red Cattle Breeding Farm. [Photo by Yang ...

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 ...