ATLANTA (AP) – 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 ...

MONTPELIER (AP) -- A mobile slaughterhouse due to be crossing the state by this spring should give small poultry producers more access to retail markets. Processing poultry in the 32-foot trailer will ...

The growing demand for locally raised, pasture-fed meat is confronted by a lack of high-quality, humane, and regional processing plants. Even the USDA has gotten involved in identifying where outreach ...

Farmers who want to process their cattle into meat they can sell on the market have to travel two hours away to do so. Johnny Knott, president of the St. Mary’s County Farm Bureau, wants to start a ...

Bruce Dunlop lives and works Washington's Lopez Island where he and his fellow farmers use a mobile slaughterhouse to process their meat. It's the first of its kind to be sanctioned by the USDA. It ...