Many small farms are in secluded areas, and it can be difficult to transport livestock to slaughter houses for packaging and selling. In 2002, a small group of farmers decided to build the first ...

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As first reported by Food Safety News last month, as part of their ongoing Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food effort, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS ...

In another move to promote local meat infrastructure, the USDA announced a red meat mobile slaughter information session for June 24 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and ...

ATLANTA—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 local ...

Southeast King County farmers want to sell their beef and pork to local restaurants and markets. But for them to do that, they have to take the animals back and forth to Eastern Washington because ...

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 ...

After five years of rebuilding their herd and corral, the Midnite Sun Reindeer Ranch is ready to take the next step — fundraising for two mobile slaughter units that would let them process and sell ...

FORT COLLINS – Cheryl Ouellette saw a niche market and has filled it. Ouellette, of Tacoma, Wash., has operated a mobile slaughter unit for about a year in an eight-county area that goes to farms and ...

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 ...

The growing demand for locally raised, pasture-fed meat is confronted by a lack of high-quality, humane, and regional processing plants. Even the USDA has gotten involved in identifying where outreach ...