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 ...

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 ...

Faced with tens of thousands of animals that can’t move through normal food supply chains, the livestock industry is turning to rendering, the process of turning farm animals into ingredients used in ...

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 ...

Wisner feedlot operator Tom Feller thought he had a good thing going in starting Wisner Rendering and transporting dead cattle from the surrounding area to a plant where they become food for racing ...

To avoid paying higher rendering costs, some farmers are considering composting dead livestock on their farms. Penn State Cooperative Extension is encouraging composting even large cows over burial or ...