Domestic agricultural processing does more than create demand for farm commodities. It anchors economic activity in rural communities.

Soybeans are one of the top U.S. agricultural exports, bringing in over $34 billion in 2022. Some 60% of soybeans in Minnesota are exported; six of 10 South Dakota soybeans are railed to Pacific ports ...

BOWDON, N.D. -- In an age when many small-town custom meat processing operations are closing down, a few are rising up, with the help of friends and hard work. The latest example is Bowdon Meat ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Planning officials are contemplating a rule change that would allow authorities to consider, on a case-by-case basis, requests to process animals in agricultural areas. County ...

Several cranes tower above a busy construction site along state Highway 37 south of Mitchell where work is rapidly progressing on a $500 million grain plant that will be the latest addition to South ...

Some research for poultry processing automation is more than meets the eye. A multidisciplinary team of scientists at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station are testing to see if hyperspectral ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s agriculture chief plans to ask lawmakers for $75 million to help bring processing and packing facilities to the state so farmers don’t have to send their products ...

An ag produce processing and cooling facility is proposed for 1750 E. Betteravia Road east of Santa Maria. While the new cooler’s future home is filled with weeds, land around it is currently used for ...

The new ag lab at Wessington Springs High School is bright with stainless steel, cold like a meat locker and spotlessly clean. The equipment is poised and ready to ...

ALMATY – Kazakhstan’s exports of agricultural products reached $7 billion in 2025, marking a 37% increase year-on-year, said Vice Minister of Agriculture Yerbol Taszhurekov, speaking at a briefing at ...