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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROOKSVILLE, Maine — Rob Cushman believes there is a better way to kill farm animals than to load them in a truck and drive the anxious pigs, steers, goats and sheep to the nearest slaughterhouse, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...