The Agriculture Department aims to offer up to $500 million in payments as meat processors navigate a livestock shortage.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed sweeping changes that would allow poultry and pork slaughterhouses to operate at faster processing speeds, part of a broader effort to modernize the ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...