The federal government has cited the Tyson Foods plant in Hutchinson, Kan. for safety violations after a worker’s hand was severed last summer.

Brucellosis is no longer on the list of causes of abortion for cattle and is not the public health scourge that it once was, but it is still a worry for livestock producers.

A Windsor, Colo. meat company is expanding a recall of meat and poultry that was produced in unsanitary conditions.

Animal-welfare activists are saying Utah legislators enacted a law to prevent filming of agricultural operations to silence them.

Hog futures rose the most in five months on signs that U.S. slaughtering plants are buying more animals as pork demand improves.

There are signs of improved demand for U.S. pork as supplies of animals tighten.