WAUBUN, Minn. — “We aren’t dummies,” Paul Benson said to his best friend Doyle Turner several years ago as the two discussed how they should start a business from the ground up that could be ...

The next round of applications for the USDA Value-Added Producer Grants program opens on January 15 th, with a deadline for submissions on April 15 th.

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...

The Biden administration, USDA, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have found something to agree on when it comes to typically divisive meatpacking industry issues. They say the next farm bill ...

Members of the Hartshorne FFA chapter, in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, now have access to a new, state-of-the-art meat processing facility and have the opportunity to become certified in meat processing upon ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Driving along U.S. Highway 12 in northeastern South Dakota, you can’t miss the newest building in the town of Andover. Located in between Aberdeen and Webster, Andover has a ...

TELFORD, Tenn. (WJHL) — A new farmer-owned meat processing facility celebrated its grand opening in Telford Thursday morning. The ribbon was cut at the Appalachian Producers Cooperative (APC) during a ...

For many years, back in the day when I simply could not afford to drop my game off at a processor, I learned to do the processing at home. As a youngster, I watched my dad butcher hogs every winter ...