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

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, ...

DES MOINES — A group representing pork producers urged the federal government Tuesday to let them continue an effort to speed up the processing of pigs into bacon and ham ...

"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 ...

The case of a single Iowa slaughterhouse—the Swift Pork plant in Ottumwa—is illustrative. 21,000 hogs a day, on average, are slaughtered at this facility. The speed is astonishing.