A highly concentrated beef market has meant higher prices for consumers and lower returns for the people raising the animals. Some ranchers in the Midwest and Great Plains want a new option by ...

Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept ...

CANANDAIGUA, NY — George Kaufman doesn’t know what happened this year with his tomato plants. The weather? The temperature? All the rain dumped on the city of Canandaigua (and rest of the Finger Lakes ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - The owner of Ranch Foods Direct said anti-competitive practices from the "big four" packing plants are playing a major part in the nationwide hike of beef prices as ...

Tomatoes are notorious for their hefty appetite for nutrients to produce bountiful crops, but alas, even the richest potting compost isn't quite up to snuff for these hungry plants. Without a proper ...

The journey of a McDonald’s burger patty doesn’t begin in the familiar din of the drive-thru, but on the sprawling expanses of sun-scorched pastures at calf-cow operations, the smaller farms and ...

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Trey Wasserburger looks out at a pen of cattle from his pickup. He works at this feed yard alongside his father-in-law in Nebraska. It takes three years of work to raise cattle before they get to the ...