Opportunities to support local meat production spotlights non-traditional slaughtering and processing operations.

A mobile slaughter operation in Washington cuts travel time for livestock producers. (Photo: USDA) Small producers raising goats, sheep and swine will likely benefit from a bill signed into law last ...

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 ...

For Kris and Bill Martinell, getting their cattle from pasture to plate is quite an undertaking - one that involves shipping the animals 2½ hours from the family ranch in southwest Montana to the ...

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 ...

BILLINGS -- For Kris and Bill Martinell, getting their cattle from pasture to plate is quite an undertaking -- one that involves shipping the animals 2 1/2 hours from the family ranch in southwest ...

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 ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Slaughtering cattle is a solitary, but personal business for Gerrit vande Bruinhorst, 55, the mobile butcher of Picture Butte, Alberta. On this day, vande Bruinhorst, a ...

At the beginning of the pandemic almost two years ago, the North Bay had scant local options for livestock slaughter. But now the region’s ranchers have three, partly thanks to disruptions in the meat ...