The announcement that Tyson would shutter a massive beef processing plant in Nebraska was the first such closure in more than a decade. Beef processors are running at lower capacity, as the U.S.

The largest U.S. meatpacker is shrinking its beef footprint again, closing two more facilities just as the national cattle herd sinks to its smallest size in roughly three generations. The cuts mark a ...

The shutdown of Tyson's massive beef complex in Lexington, Nebraska is more than a corporate restructuring. It is a shock to ...

About 3,200 of Lexington, Nebraska’s 11,000 residents work at a huge Tyson Foods beef processing plant — for another month.

Plant closures and rising global competition create new hurdles for U.S. beef producers seeking stable export markets.

HOMINY, OKLA.— Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook a nearly 700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly ...

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This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. WALL, S.D. –The 2,400 square-foot Wall Meat Processing plant is ...

Imperial County in Southern California produces food for much of the country. The economy there depends on agriculture and cattle. Reporter Caitlin Esch has more on why the planned shutdown of a local ...

Several cranes tower above a busy construction site along state Highway 37 south of Mitchell where work is rapidly progressing on a $500 million grain plant that will be the latest addition to South ...

WALL – The small, somewhat worn meat processing plant in rural Wall seems an unlikely place for the birth of a new trend in South Dakota agriculture. But it could fundamentally change the economic ...