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Cattle feeding margins improved nearly $25 per head last week, but average per head losses remain more than $32.

Export value for both U.S. beef and pork reached new heights in 2014, posting double-digit gains over the previous year’s totals, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef announced the launch of a new case-ready packaging program for both Premium Black Angus Beef and All-Natural Duroc Pork.

A University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist says the slowdown is affecting the U.S. meat industry.

Cattle feeding margins declined nearly $53 per head last week, leaving average losses at $56 per head.

In the U.S., the country that made the hamburger a global icon of American fast-food cuisine, beef is about to fall another spot on the meat scale.

The University of Missouri has built a small-scale anaerobic digestion system to produce biogas from pig manure.

Many co-products from the corn processing industry may be used in diets fed to pigs.

Cattle feeding margins have declined $118 per head over the last two weeks, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.

Public comments are accepted on a draft environmental impact statement until Feb. 2.

The global rout in commodities finally hit cattle with futures off to the worst start to a year since 1980.

The song remains the same for the cattle market: tight supplies and high prices.

Losses averaged $3 per head last week after profits exceeded $50 per head the week before, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.

Twitter's penchant for word games has wandered into the agriculture industry multiple times this week.

Trying to reshape the long-held eating habits of Americans, Tyson Foods Inc. wants to make chicken a mainstream choice for breakfast, just like bacon.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. halted pork sales at about one-third of its approximately 1,700 U.S. restaurants after discovering violations of its pig-housing policies at a supplier.

Chipotle says it stopped serving pork at hundreds of its restaurants after suspending a supplier that violated its standards.

Live cattle sales averaged $4 per hundredweight higher last week with relatively steady total feeding costs, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.

Utah prosecutors are dropping charges against four animal activists filed under a controversial law known as "ag-gag."

U.S. beef and pork export volumes trended lower in November, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Opponents of a large mid-Missouri hog farm are launching a new effort to stop the operation.

An Indiana Senate committee is set to consider a bill that would prohibit local governments from placing restrictions on large livestock farms in many rural areas.

Cargill Inc. has announced plans to close a Springfield meat slicing and packaging facility that employs 118 people.

Wild hogs have no business in Montana, according to legislation proposed Thursday that aims to keep the animals out of the state.

A Los Angeles-area company is recalling more than 48,000 pounds of frozen beef and pork that may be contaminated with metal.

Four animal activists who took pictures of a large southwestern Utah hog farm are pleading not guilty to charges filed under a controversial law that criminalizes undercover investigations of slaughterhouses and farms.

Tyson Foods has added a $3 million line at its plant in Emporia, creating about 16 new jobs.

A new feed mill is taking shape near Parkersburg, which will mean bigger production volumes for clients and perhaps a 40 percent increase in its employee roster, its manager says.

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture says a swine virus has shown up on four more Waianae farms.

Iowa environmental officials credit quick action by a farmer for preventing environmental damage from a manure spill.

Cattle feeding margins declined for the second consecutive week following a run of several months of exceptional profits.

State environmental officials credit quick action by a farmer for preventing environmental damage from a manure spill.

Last year as Jack Frost nipped across the United States, the swine industry saw an immense spike in Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) cases.

The Clemens Food Group operation will be in Coldwater Township. It is expected to create more than 800 jobs and $255 million in total investments.

The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved $12.5 million in grants to support the construction of a 550,000-square-foot pork processing facility.

After several months of exceptional profits, cattle feeders lost money last week.

Cattle feeding margins nose-dived $100 per head last week, settling at $45 per head, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.

Strong variety meat exports helped offset lower volumes for beef and pork muscle cuts in October, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Poland's constitutional court on Wednesday overturned a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals which had affected the Jewish and Muslim communities.

The Indiana Supreme Court has been tasked with deciding which county court will hear a lawsuit filed by a northwestern Indiana youth camp seeking to stop a farmer from raising more than 9,000 hogs on nearby land.

Hogs are going the way of many commodities as glut of raw materials sends the Bloomberg Commodity Index lower for a fourth straight year.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a politically charged bill that would have banned the use of certain pig cages in his state, a move many observers see as aimed at appeasing Iowa voters ahead of a potential 2016 presidential run.

What do "more realistic" hog prices mean for the remainder of this year and 2015?

After reaching never before seen prices the hog and pork markets have come back to reality.

Last week, when cash cattle traded at $173 to $174 per cwt., average feedyard margins dropped to $132 per head, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.

JBS SA, the world’s biggest meat producer, said it plans to increase exports to Asia after paying $1.3 billion to buy Primo Group, the largest producer of ham and bacon in Australia and New Zealand.

Eating ham has never been more expensive than this year, partly because U.S. pigs are too fat.

Record cash fed cattle prices last week at $171 - $172 per cwt. boosted cattle feeding margins $22 per head, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker.

Beef packers saw modest improvement to their long-running negative margins.

The pork industry should finish strong in 2014, but next year the outlook isn't quite as bright.