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 ...

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 ...

The Biden administration, USDA, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have found something to agree on when it comes to typically divisive meatpacking industry issues. They say the next farm bill ...

Thirteen businesses will get state money this year from a fund designed to help small-scale meat processors. Iowa Economic Development Authority spokesperson Kanan Kappleman says the grants total more ...

Over the Labor Day weekend, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was going to ease wastewater regulations on meat processing plants. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a final action ...

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...

In August of 2021, a group of farmers, mainly comprised of members from the Washington County Cattlemen’s Association in ...