WASHINGTON — A new bill was introduced by US Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Tina Smith (D-Minn) to support localized meat processing operations and give tribal authority over facilities.

Last week, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced the Promoting Regulatory Independence, Mastery, and ...

The new ag lab at Wessington Springs High School is bright with stainless steel, cold like a meat locker and spotlessly clean. The equipment is poised and ready to ...

House passes farm bill with pesticide changes. Minnesota schools add meat processing. Sugarbeet co-op wants to add autonomous trucks in Minnesota. How soil tarping can improve your garden or farm.

UFCW Local 7 says it is protesting unfair labor practices at the meatpacking giant.

The Middleby Corp. announced that Mark Salman will serve as chief executive officer of the Middleby Food Processing business once it becomes an independent public company in the second quarter of 2026 ...

Middleby is splitting up, and the sum-of-the-parts math looks promising if margins cooperate.

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 ...

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 ...

Workers at the largest meat supplier in the world will strike at its Greeley plant, according to the workers' union, which said 99% of workers at the plant approved the strike over "poverty-level" ...