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 ...

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 ...

In addition to celebrating the successful renovation and opening of its fifth plant, Standard Meat Co. is celebrating 90 ...

A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants safer for workers. The bill has ...

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 ...

BATTLE LAKE, Minn. — “When am I ever going to use this?” is a question countless students have asked teachers about a given subject matter for generations. But it’s not a question that came up during ...

HARDWICK – Chicken pot pies sell faster – and for a higher price per pound – than chickens. Sausage brings in more money per pound than a side of pork. And beef processed into jerky is more profitable ...

Farmland makes up half the total acreage in Washington County, Tennessee. But this rolling landscape in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains does not allow for easy planting or plowing, so ...