Officials in North Dakota and Minnesota want changes in beef industry safeguards that helped detect the nation's first case of mad cow disease. Many focus on abandoning the practice of using downed ...

You don’t need to be a vegan to know that livestock and poultry aren’t “harvested,” the squeaky clean verb that’s become fashionable among farm and ranch groups to minimize the end — as in The End — ...

A holiday visit to a Lenawee County farm turned sour for a group of Muslims and a farmer earlier this week, ending in a bitter dispute over meat, money and assault allegations. On July 10, a number of ...

Scroll down to see data. Estimated Daily Livestock Slaughter under Federal Inspection CATTLE CALVES HOGS SHEEP Friday 08/06/2010 (est) 117,000 4,000 398,000 6,000 Week ago (est) 129,000 4,000 367,000 ...

Thousands of cattle are being slaughtered as the Smoke House Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle blazes across 1.1 million acres, according to reports from the area. The fire is leaving destruction and ...

The United States has no plans to test all slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease, an Agriculture Department official said Monday, saying it is neither necessary nor justified. At the same time, the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government announced Tuesday that it will ban cattle slaughter, saying it would help the dairy industry and thereby save money used to purchase imported milk ...

The highly contagious foot and mouth disease spread rapidly, and millions of livestock was slaughtered.

Lean hog futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell on Monday on profit taking following last week's Hog and Pigs report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO ...

Among the legislation announced alongside the King’s Speech on Tuesday was a ban on the export of UK livestock for fattening and slaughter. The decision, if it gets through Parliament, will have a ...