A mobile slaughter operation in Washington cuts travel time for livestock producers. (Photo: USDA) Small producers raising goats, sheep and swine will likely benefit from a bill signed into law last ...

Producers raising goats, sheep and swine will benefit from a bill signed into law this week that eases restrictions for on-farm slaughter operations. The bill, sponsored by the California Farm Bureau, ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

Slaughter contends that the best way to control these "superbugs" -- which not only poison food but also result in up to 100,000 deadly hospital infections a year -- is to pass her legislation ...

At Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield, for example, the law s stipulation that only an itinerant slaughterer or the animal s buyer can perform the slaughter on site means that farm co-owner Laura ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

On-farm slaughter has long been a contentious issue in Vermont. Vocal consumers, farmers and their advocates have campaigned hard for the right to raise an animal, then slaughter it and buy and sell ...

Federal legislation known as the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act has been reintroduced in Congress. The PRIME Act would amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt ...

WASHINGTON -- Faulted for its enforcement, the Agriculture Department has begun tracking the hours that inspectors spend on assuring that cattle and hogs are slaughtered humanely. Last fall, Garry ...

SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...