Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, South Dakota is now a coronavirus hot spot. NBC News’ Blayne Alexander hears about the conditions inside the plant, now closed indefinitely, from a longtime ...

The USDA currently inspects 722 beef processing facilities across the country, less than half the number of plants that were open in 1980. Today, just 28 cattle processing plants are within tribal ...

The USDA currently inspects 722 beef processing facilities across the country, less than half the number of plants that were open in 1980. Today, just 28 cattle processing plants are within tribal ...

But Moore County isn’t an outlier. In recent weeks, beef, pork, and poultry processing plants across the US have emerged as dangerous new hot spots for the deadly respiratory disease, which can ...

In August of 2023, I began my time at a small-scale, family-owned, USDA-inspected plant in rural Virginia, where I worked until February 2024. I was in the middle of a season at an organic vegetable ...

“Larger spacing, more room inside the plant, layout, taking all of that into consideration, with state-of-the-art new equipment, new spacing, new requirements,” he says.

Workforce training and more funding needed, tribal advocates say Sinclair, the plant manager at the Cherokee Nation’s meat processing facility, walked past a line of hanging beef carcasses ...