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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Livestock are routinely trucked to slaughter plants. Now, agricultural leaders are looking into another option: mobile slaughter trailers traveling to the livestock. The idea has people talking around ...

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