Facing opposition, the federal government has dropped a six-year voluntary effort to get farmers here and nationwide to tag and trace the movements of......

Gene Baur has been on a crusade for more than two decades to make sure sick farm animals do not end up in the human food supply.
His odyssey has take......

A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cat......

Eight Lancaster County school districts may have served their students beef that is the subject of the largest meat recall in U.S. history.
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To avoid paying higher rendering costs, some farmers are considering composting dead livestock on their farms.
Penn State Cooperative Extension is enc......