In cow calf production, lameness is second only to reproduction for culling criteria. 
 It impacts all levels of the ...

The HMSA applies to the roughly 166 million livestock killed each year at approximately 800 federally inspected slaughter plants, and to a much smaller number of animals killed at approximately 1,900 ...

But anything that keeps certain plants offline will make that particular challenge worse.” He says the longer his goes on, the bigger weight it will have on slaughter capacity and cattle prices ...

Residents of Denver voted on whether or not to prohibit the slaughter of livestock in the city ... is home to the second largest lamb processing plant in America. So for us, it was a huge issue ...

The plant has 3,600 workers. Slaughter capacity was already a concern heading into this week as packers bought relatively few cattle on the cash market last week. Analysts say most packer needs ...

Without such inspection, horse slaughter plants cannot legally operate ... most arrive at the slaughterhouse via livestock auctions, where unsuspecting owners sell the animals to slaughterhouse ...

The new season slaughter cattle market often remains choppy and somewhat unpredictable until after the Australia Day long ...