GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s 5:30 a.m. on a recent Monday and Sean Stanton is using a flashlight to hook a trailer loaded with four pigs to his cargo van. He’s about to make the hour and 15 minute trip to ...

It’s processing day for San Juan Island farmer Lori-Ann David. For her livestock, that means they’ll spend their morning as they typically would on the 100-acre Aurora Farms off the northern coast of ...

Ruby Duke, founder of Raven & Boar Farm in East Chatham, has opened a new USDA facility on her farm. . The Raven & Boar Farm offers several vacuum-sealed packages of processed meats and sausages from ...

QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - China's top pig farmer Guangdong Wen's Foodstuff Group is pushing into processing meat, broadening its operations to limit the impact from tougher competition and falling ...

(For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click [nFLU]) * Flu viruses can survive freezing, be present on thawed meat * Blood of H1N1 infected pigs may contain virus * Meat from sick pigs or pigs found ...