Small meat processing plant owners, managers and management-track employees from across the U.S. are invited to apply for ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

Zimmerman Meats is a smaller meat processor in Summerville, Missouri, that recently received a $730,000 grant from the USDA’s Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program. That program was set up to ...

Farmers and ranchers raising livestock for sale face three possible paths. They can ship their animals to a feedlot, where a large company grain-finishes, processes, and cuts the meat, the most common ...

Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering a free webinar, “USDA Assistance for Small Scale Meat Processing — An Overview of Rural ...

Greg Gunthorp stands on his farm near LaGrange, Ind., in October 2023 where he operates a small meat processing business. He sells to chic Chicago and Indianpolis restaurants but finds it hard to ...

Organic. Grass fed. Ethically raised. Ethically processed. Low carbon footprint. Locally sourced. These are all buzzwords a ...