A mobile slaughter operation in Washington cuts travel time for livestock producers. (Photo: USDA) Small producers raising goats, sheep and swine will likely benefit from a bill signed into law last ...

Producers raising goats, sheep and swine will benefit from a bill signed into law this week that eases restrictions for on-farm slaughter operations. The bill, sponsored by the California Farm Bureau, ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

On-farm slaughter has long been a contentious issue in Vermont. Vocal consumers, farmers and their advocates have campaigned hard for the right to raise an animal, then slaughter it and buy and sell ...

At Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield, for example, the law s stipulation that only an itinerant slaughterer or the animal s buyer can perform the slaughter on site means that farm co-owner Laura ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...