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, ...

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 ...

This spring, in Berkeley, a coup almost broke out in a city chicken coop. It turns out that when urban farming involves slaughtering – not just raising – animals, things get complicated. The battle ...

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 ...

Could you personally slaughter an animal that you watched take its first breaths? Most people, especially animal lovers, would loudly claim no. But Jon McConaughy, who co-owns Double Brook Farm in ...