CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy ...

For years, the Trump administration worked to eliminate limits on the speed a meat processing plant operates at. This was a popular move in the meatpacking industry, which saw it as a way to process ...

As the pork and poultry industries cheer deregulation that will let them permanently increase the speed of production lines at slaughterhouses, workers say they’re already moving too fast. “We don’t ...

CHICAGO, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed three pork plants to increase processing line speeds this month as part of a trial program, reviving a policy that started ...

Union workers at the JBS pork processing plant in Worthington this week ratified a new contract, which they say addresses critical safety concerns on the production line. The employees, represented by ...

USDA has decided to extend a series of trial projects testing higher line speeds in six pork processing plants. USDA initiated the trials after a federal court blocked the higher speeds from being a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced is has invested more than $43 million in meat and poultry processing research, innovation and expansion in an effort to transform the food system at ...

The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes and changed the way Americans purchase and ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It’s no surprise to those who have spent their entire lives in the “beef state” that Nebraska leads the nation in veal and beef exports, as well as commercial cattle slaughter.

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 ...