The Hall of Fame pitcher and part owner of Nolan Ryan’s All Natural Beef will kick off the 10th annual Texas Steak Cookoff on Saturday, May 18, in historic downtown Hico, Texas.

The company will keep the name, Sam Kane Beef Processors, and is continuing operations without interruption.

Northern Beef Packers laid off 108 workers last week because of a lack of working capital to buy and process cattle, plant officials said.

Canada's beef industry is about to ask the federal government to approve the use of irradiation in meat-processing plants to kill E. coli bacteria in a full range of meat products.

Ground beef and chicken pose the greatest likelihood of hospitalization, according to a new report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The new campaign, funded by the beef checkoff, will feature sizzling beef recipes, juicy details about essential nutrients and the voice of Garrett Hedlund.

The U.S. Meat Export Federation expects U.S. beef sales to Japan to rise to 217,000 tons in 2013.

Cargill is reintroducing Spencer Beef to the marketplace following Japan’s announcement in January that it would allow into the country imports of U.S. beef products from cattle under 30 months of age.

Russia’s new restrictions on the feed additive ractopamine have reduced the number of Canadian plants eligible for exporting.

Russia will import beef from just five of the 25 Mexican processing plants from which it had previously bought as a result of a ban on the feed additive ractopamine.