Beef prices are soaring as cattle inventory dips. Here's the role cattle have played in Oklahoma's history and culture.

The small, somewhat worn meat processing plant in rural Wall seems an unlikely place for the birth of a new trend in South Dakota agriculture. But it could fundamentally change the economic landsca… ...

Workers cut and handle beef from a cow supplied by a local rancher at the Wall Meat Processing plant in Wall, S.D., in October 2023. (South Dakota News Watch) But the two co-owners of the plant ...

Just four companies dominate about 85% of the beef processing market, which means higher prices for consumers and lower returns for the people raising the animals. Some ranchers and cattle feeders are ...

Some ranchers and cattle feeders are organizing to build their own processing plants. Harvest Public Media's Elizabeth Rembert reports on a rancher-led meatpacking project in Nebraska.