The 2025 beef production forecast is lowered on the slower expected pace of cattle slaughter in the second half of the year.

The lowest U.S. cattle inventories since the 1950s have propelled beef prices to all-time highs in recent months.

Windom pork plant was losing $6M a month, ... American slaughterhouses were battling outbreaks of COVID-19 among workers, and meat shortages were happening across the country, ...

"Slaughterhouses may still operate in the same way they did previously — noncompliant pork processing is not only allowed, but slaughterhouses are not even required to segregate noncompliant ...