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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WAIMEA — Not many decades ago, the Goliath sugar industry crashed on the Big Island, helping bring a fundamental shift to what residents consider sustainable. ADVERTISING WAIMEA — Not many decades ago ...

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 ...

Mona Stark and her four sons, ages 7 to 16, looked into the back of the trailer, where a man with a knife sliced the hide from the flesh of large hog. They talked about pork rinds as they jockeyed for ...

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 ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. - A small meat company in Rapid City offers a niche within a niche - field-harvested bison meat marketed as both stress-free for the animals and good for the environment. Wild Idea ...