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Grocery retailer Giant Eagle alleges the nation’s large beef packing companies have exploited their market power to limit the supply of beef and raise prices in a new lawsuit filed in Chicago on Wednesday.

If finding employees to fill positions wasn’t hard enough, finding available and affordable housing has encouraged companies to provide housing options as part of employment.

Jury deadlocks over price-fixing, bid-rigging allegations by poultry executives. Prosecutors suggest a third trial but the U.S. District judge wants a explanation from the head of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division first.

Beyond Meat is set to release quarterly financial reports likely showing growing sales and increasing losses. As one analyst put it, “it seems the more faux meat they sell the more faux money they make.”

Three lawsuits filed against America’s largest beef packer companies can be consolidated into one, a Minnesota federal court ruled last week.

Sued by a meat company last month alleging fraud, a New Hampshire woman has countersued, alleging a "bad faith" attempt to avoid payment for livestock.

Swine fever drives people to seek other forms of meat protein and farmers may even be starting to slaughter their own dairy cows.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to JBS USA concerning its Souderton, Pennsylvania, rendering facility.

Meat processor says that ‘time was right to exit its investment’ and it will test its own protein alternatives.

Cull cow prices are sharing in the Spring cattle price rally.  Normally, cull cow prices increase from the Fall into late Spring, and that increase is well underway. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will both be involved in regulatory oversight of cell-culture food originating from livestock and poultry, also known as "fake meat."

From Bill Gates to Leonardo DiCaprio, investors are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that the appetite for meat alternatives will mushroom.

Brazilian-owned meat packer JBS S.A. will sell about 1.8 million pounds of pork products through President Trump’s bailout program .

Improving animal welfare and employee safety—that’s the top two goals driving the creation of the industry’s first robotic cattle mover.

Cargill and Tyson hit by Trump border stand and low unemployment. Analyst says it’s a ‘jump ball’ if new plants will run to capacity.

Of the top 10 products in terms of year-over-year percentage growth, poultry products account for half of them, with chicken making up the bulk of that.

A joint meeting on cell cultured meat or “lab-grown meat” could help direct labeling of the emerging alternative protein products, as well as address safety concerns.

Large supplies of meat and dairy, possibly record-setting tons, are coming to U.S. consumers.

South Korea, the 2nd largest buyer of U.S. beef, is enacting further safety measures following the discovery of an atypical case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cow in Florida.

Memphis Meats, Inc. and the North American Meat Institute have sent a joint letter to the White House regarding whether FDA or USDA should regulate lab-grown meat.

An expansion to a Texas Panhandle packing plant will add 800 more head per day in slaughter capacity, primarily for cull cow and bull processing.

The Impossible Burger, a plant-based burger, is being served on Air New Zealand and it has caused an outcry from politicians and beef producers. 

Two new beef packers in Idaho are allowing dairy producers to market their cull cows locally.

Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meat processor, has invested in an Israeli biotech company developing a way to grow affordable meat in a laboratory that takes live animals out of the equation.

After more than a year the CDC has released findings from a report showing a Salmonella outbreak in the southwest was traced back to dairy cattle in New Mexico.

Wesley Batista, former head of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA, was released from jail early Wednesday morning after a court victory yesterday.

The world's largest cattle feeder has sold to Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P., an investment firm specializing in commodities and natural resources.

San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to require grocers with 25 stores or more to report annually the use of antibiotics in the raw meat and poultry they sell.

Keeping livestock healthy linked to rise of human infection.

But still lower than a year ago

Consumer perceptions, retailers and legislation are changing the way livestock are raised in the U.S.

Cull cows have been somewhat overlooked in the grand scheme of beef production. While seen mostly as walking hamburger, cull cows are contributors in other ways.

The residues reported by Reuters represent only one part of USDA’s inspection program, says Zoetis veterinarian.

Few things embody Wisconsin as much as dairy and meat.

President Obama urges Republican-led U.S. House to pass changes to immigration law, focusing on an issue that may benefit his party as the flawed rollout of his health-care law hurts his popularity.