PennyGem on MSN

$3.3B Tyson beef plant shuts down—3,200 jobs and 5% of US beef supply gone

When Tyson Foods announced the permanent shutdown of its sprawling Lexington, Nebraska beef processing complex on November 21 ...
AgWeb

Unpacking the Beef: Report Clarifies Cattle Market Realities, Packer Challenges & Trade Tensions

Since President Donald Trump’s comments last week, a lot has been discussed on social media and at the coffee shop about increasing beef imports from Argentina, beef retail prices, the cattle market ...
Iowa Public Radio

Ranchers got tired of Big Beef taking their profits. So they’re starting their own processing plant

A highly concentrated beef market has meant higher prices for consumers and lower returns for the people raising the animals. Some ranchers in the Midwest and Great Plains want a new option by ...
The Journal

WASDE notes change in beef production, processing

The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report has noted that beef production forecast was raised from the previous month, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The February ...
NBC Montana

Missoula food group, area ranchers look to alleviate beef-processing bottleneck

HELENA, Mont. — Less than 5% of cattle born in Montana are processed in the state. Sarah and Joshua Christenson pride themselves on being part of the local food economy. As co-owners of a 117-year-old ...
Reuters

Beef woes has Tyson reducing cattle slaughter

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. meat producer Tyson Foods Inc said on Friday it will soon discontinue cattle slaughter at its Emporia, Kansas, plant as part of a restructuring because the U.S. cattle ...