The Agriculture Department aims to offer up to $500 million in payments as meat processors navigate a livestock shortage.

The Agriculture Department will offer small and mid-sized beef processors up to $500 million to help them weather a historic cattle shortage, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday.

Iowa's cattle ranchers are getting some good news: The state's largest beef processing plant is about to get bigger. Iowa Premium will undertake a $100 million expansion of its Tama plant, its parent ...

For Pennsylvania rancher Michael Kovach, the lack of slaughter facilities near his farm has been a burden for many years. Kovach sells his pork, beef, lamb and chicken onsite at his own farm stand.