WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Cattle rendering businesses in southwestern Minnesota are getting ready for a new Food and Drug Administration rule aimed at preventing mad cow disease from reaching the food ...

Cows graze in a field off of Lake Road in Merced, Calif., on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] A local emergency was declared in Merced County after two separate livestock ...

A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs, ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. -- Cattle rendering businesses in southwestern Minnesota are getting ready for a new Food and Drug Administration rule aimed at preventing mad cow disease from reaching the food ...

The California legislature is looking to expand the use of agricultural compost, this time for livestock carcasses. But rendering industry representatives say broadly easing restrictions for mammalian ...

Tom Feller’s employees are the last people cattle and hog producers want to see, but the first people called when farmers have an animal down. As owner of Wisner Rendering, Feller jokes that he’s a ...

HALFWAY, Mo. — The trucks blocking the driveway to the Halfway Packing Co. describe the firm’s operations with the slogan: "Our business is dead." Never has that been more true. The company that ...

Cattle gather at a feedlot in Finney County near where heat stress killed thousands in June. More than 2,000 cattle carcasses were put in landfill piles or pits after dying in the southwest Kansas ...