For years, Greg Wierschke built up the nation’s only mobile, federally approved poultry slaughter unit in the country, processing birds across rural Minnesota. Now with a $1 million infusion, he’s ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced July 11 that the Biden-Harris administration is making investments that will strengthen American food supply chains, increase independent ...

MADISON – Nearly 200,000 chickens raised in Wisconsin for meat were given away by farms after a Minnesota meat company went bankrupt and failed to pay for transport to processing companies and feed ...

The Biden Administration announced Monday it will spend $1 billion in American Rescue Funds to expand independent meat processing capacity as part of a broader initiative to break up what it calls a ...

insights from industryDr. David Honigs, Ph.D.Field Applications ScientistPerkinElmer, Inc. In this interview, Dr. David Honigs, Ph.D, the Field Applications Scientist at PerkinElmer, Inc., talks 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 ...

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 ...

There's a lot to like about raising chickens. Just ask Paul Zalucha, who has been raising them on his Dexter property for 30 years. There are farm-fresh eggs daily and a freezer full of meat at the ...

Farmland makes up half the total acreage in Washington County, Tennessee. But this rolling landscape in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains does not allow for easy planting or plowing, so ...