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Many small farms are in secluded areas, and it can be difficult to transport livestock to slaughter houses for packaging and selling. In 2002, a small group of farmers decided to build the first ...

As first reported by Food Safety News last month, as part of their ongoing Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food effort, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS ...

In another move to promote local meat infrastructure, the USDA announced a red meat mobile slaughter information session for June 24 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and ...

ATLANTA—Georgia is the nation’s biggest producer of broiler chickens, but small farmers for years have been pushed to the margins of this lucrative industry because they don’t have access to local ...

Southeast King County farmers want to sell their beef and pork to local restaurants and markets. But for them to do that, they have to take the animals back and forth to Eastern Washington because ...

After five years of rebuilding their herd and corral, the Midnite Sun Reindeer Ranch is ready to take the next step — fundraising for two mobile slaughter units that would let them process and sell ...

A mobile livestock slaughtering business, found by the USDA to have inhumanely knocked animals unconscious in several incidents, has been warned to not let it happen again by the Washington State ...

A new bill introduced by Assemblyman Marc Levine would make it legal in California for mobile units to slaughter goats, sheep and swine at farm and ranch sites instead of having to send them miles ...

Vandals have apparently damaged more mobile slaughter units in the Northwest, calling it “sabotage” in the name of animal rights. A “chemical abrasive” and bleach were poured into the fuel tanks of ...

It’s official. The that mobile poultry processing unit we first wrote about two weeks ago has sold to the highest bidders — in this case, Lila Bennett and David Robb of Tangletown Farm in Middlesex.