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Walmart Inc. has officially announced plans to build a 330,000-square-foot commercial beef facility in Olathe, Kansas. The company previously applied for $257 million in industry bonds to construct the facility

Determining the ideal time for the first cutting of alfalfa can significantly impact yields and nutritive quality.

The Arkansas-based mega-retailer said it plans to hire more than 650 people to staff the $257 million plant it’s building on the southern edge of Olathe near U.S. 169 and 167th Street.

This action builds on the significant work USDA has already undertaken to protect consumers from false and misleading labels and to implement President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American economy.

Some of the world’s best minds that are focused on profitable and sustainable livestock production attended and presented at the recent Second U.S. Precision Livestock Farming Conference. Hosted by University of Tennessee AgResearch, the May 21-24 event at the UT Conference Center in Knoxville attracted 219 attendees representing 22 countries and 32 U.S. states. Participants

A Kansas State University microbiologist will use a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the mitigation of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, across the food chain in the beef cattle production system.

A question was recently asked concerning where a person should market their calves. There are many people who think marketing calves at one sale barn is better than marketing at another sale barn. There is no way to convince those people otherwise, and there is nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree. However, if those same

DES MOINES, Iowa — High production costs and decreasing demand likely will translate into a rough year for pork producers. Several other factors will also take their toll on profits, said Steve Meyer, lead economist for Partners for Production Agriculture based in Ames, Iowa. He spoke to producers at the World Pork Expo here June

Insights from the Agricultural Marketing Service’s Daily Direct Afternoon Hog Report

Leading animal health company Medgene has been granted a second license by the USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) to produce and market a groundbreaking Platform Vaccine for the pork industry