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

JBS executives have warned that the U.S. beef industry has more processing capacity than current cattle supplies can support.

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.

Tyson Foods, America’s largest meat supplier, is planning to close one of its largest beef-processing plants in Nebraska at a time when a cattle shortage in the U.S. squeezes meatpacking companies.

CHICAGO (Reuters) -Cargill Inc has no immediate plans to close its U.S. beef processing plants, the company said on Wednesday, days after meatpacker Tyson Foods announced it would shutter a major ...

Concrete barricades blocked the entrance to the Cargill beef plant in Ft. Morgan, Colo., on May 20. About 1,700 workers had been locked out by the company after months of contract negotiations ended ...

CHICAGO, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Cargill Inc has no immediate plans to close its U.S. beef processing plants, the company said on Wednesday, days after meatpacker Tyson Foods (TSN.N), opens new tab ...

The beef processing plant in Olathe, Kansas, marked a turning point for Walmart. But ranchers and agricultural experts warn the nation’s already stunted beef industry could be falling under more ...

A feedlot operator in Nebraska said the closing of Tyson’s Lexington meatpacking plant will mean higher transportation costs as he and others will realign their destination routes. Craig Uden is a ...

Lisa and Oscar Mayorga are part of a family ranch in Montana that sells grass-fed beef direct to consumers. The ranch has about 100 cows. “We do organic, grass-fed and grass-finished so the cattle don ...

Darwin Nissley and other Eastern producers are bracing for higher trucking costs and tighter margins as JBS exits ...