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

The world’s largest meatpacker, is preparing to close a beef-processing plant in Pennsylvania, the latest facility to close as a cattle shortage in the U.S. squeezes meatpacking companies.

U.S. beef plants face unprecedented pressure as a Mexican cattle import halt — imposed to prevent screwworm spread — leaves processors undersupplied and forced to shutter facilities. The border ...

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 ...

Aimed at stabilizing regional markets amid 75-year herd lows, the new program offers a financial lifeline to non-dominant, U.S.-owned packers.

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

A standoff between Cargill and the union representing one of its beef plants is rattling cattle prices Wednesday. Live-cattle futures were down close to 1% as the agriculture giant locked out about ...