LivestockEight more meat and poultry firms adopt the voluntary Product of USA label
More than 30 companies have now committed to USDA's Product of USA label, which marks meat and poultry born, raised, harvested and processed in the United States.
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LivestockTexas Panhandle cattle raisers win USDA loan guarantee for their own beef plant
A USDA loan guarantee will back a $24.6 million commercial loan for a locally owned beef processing plant in Dimmitt, Texas, set up by 36 cattle-raising investors to process about 400 head a day.
AgribusinessUSDA opens $5 billion in loan guarantees for meat, poultry and seafood processing
The new SPUR Guaranteed Loan Program will back commercial lenders with a 90 percent guarantee so that small and regional plants can expand and diversify processing, with seafood included for the first time.
Opinion
Opinion: Steve Kay on falling US cattle prices, packing-plant raids and beef imports
In his Kay's Cuts column for Beef Central, analyst Steve Kay says cash cattle prices fell 15 percent from June while packers regained margins, and that an immigration operation in Kansas cut a week's slaughter sharply.
Agribusiness
Australian meat plant cuts its gas use by about 30% by recycling refrigeration heat
Gundagai Meat Processors preheats boiler water with waste heat from its refrigeration plant, saving about A$135,000 a year on a A$450,000 system and avoiding a new boiler.
LivestockOlymel opens $142m pork and poultry plant in Trois-Rivières with four times the capacity
The Quebec meat processor's rebuilt Trois-Rivières plant can turn out 50 million kilograms a year of pork and poultry products and adds about 100 jobs.
Livestock
USDA offers $50 million to help more states run their own meat inspection
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced the Stand-Up Program, up to $50 million to help states start or expand state meat and poultry inspection in partnership with FSIS, so that more small processors are inspected and ranchers have somewhere to process close to home; cattle producers wel
LivestockNew Mexico becomes 31st state to run its own meat and poultry inspection
USDA and the New Mexico Livestock Board have finalised an agreement bringing the state into the State Meat and Poultry Inspection programme, a step aimed at small processors and the ranchers who supply them.
Agribusiness
Illinois offers state funds to lure a new operator for shut Tyson beef plant at Joslin
Governor JB Pritzker has opened the Invest in Illinois Fund to prospective buyers of the former Tyson Foods beef plant at Joslin, whose closure last month cost nearly 2,500 jobs and removed a key cattle market for the state's 14,000 beef farms.
Agribusiness
Australia's $1.54 billion tallow trade sails through Gulf conflict on US biofuel demand
The world's largest tallow exporter shipped about 1.01 million tonnes of rendered products in 2025-650,000 t of tallow and used cooking oil plus 360,000 t of protein meals, with value up 26.5%; 65% of fats went to the US and 26% to Singapore for renewable diesel and jet fuel, and prices hover nea
AgribusinessGeorgia joins USDA scheme letting state-inspected meat cross state lines
On 27 July 2026 USDA and Georgia finalised a Cooperative Interstate Shipment agreement, letting participating state-inspected meat processors ship across state lines under the USDA mark and bringing the programme to 11 states.
LivestockUSDA offers $500 million to keep independent beef processors running
The Strengthening Processing for U.S. Ranchers programme will pay eligible U.S.-owned beef plants that are not among the dominant packers, as the cattle herd sits at a 75-year low.