A shrunken U.S. beef herd has forced meat processors into a bidding war for a dwindling supply of animals, making it harder ...

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.

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

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 (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 ...

New research tracked bacteria through a beef plant's three-step cleaning and found E. coli dropped at every stage.