Backed by the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), USDA aimed to help rebuild local meat processing capacity. Along with stated goals to increase economic opportunities for small ...

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom ...

For Pennsylvania rancher Michael Kovach, the lack of slaughter facilities near his farm has been a burden for many years. Kovach sells his pork, beef, lamb and chicken onsite at his own farm stand.

A Q&A with Lexy Close of the Appalachian Producers Cooperative, who says the new facility could revive the area’s local meat ...

Four big meatpackers control most of the beef slaughter. Farm groups say less market competition means lower prices for cattle. But new company Cattlemen’s Heritage plans to build a facility on the ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. WALL, S.D. –The 2,400 square-foot Wall Meat Processing plant is ...