For years, Greg Wierschke built up the nation’s only mobile, federally approved poultry slaughter unit in the country, processing birds across rural Minnesota. Now with a $1 million infusion, he’s ...

WILLMAR — With one success under their belt, it might not be a total surprise that the owners of the first USDA-inspected mobile poultry processing facility in the country would also be behind the ...

ALBANY, CANADA — Canadian consumers are increasingly seeking high-quality, locally processed products that reflect their ...

Sep. 22—UNITY — Thursday was a dream come true for Hussam Al Rawi and his wife, Kathryn Piper. The couple broke ground on their halal slaughterhouse, which is to be the first in Maine and one of two ...

GLYNDON, Minn. — The halal meat processing facility proposed for Glyndon cleared its first hurdle Tuesday night, Sept. 20, when the Clay County planning commission unanimously granted a conditional ...

UNITY, Maine (WABI) - Maine’s first halal butchery will soon come to Unity. On Thursday, a foundation stone ceremony was held for Five Pillars Butchery House of Meat. Halal is food that is permissible ...

WILLMAR — Clean Chickens, a Minnesota meat processing company, began construction on its $3.5 million halal meat processing facility, Happy Halal, in September of 2024. Since then, construction on the ...

Lafayette restaurateur Ema Haq recently purchased a $2.2 million property along Willow Street for his growing food service business. Haq, who owns Bailey's Seafood & Grill and Ema's Cafe, is expanding ...

Khna Chroeung, one of the founders of the Lotus Blossom ethnic grocery store in Fargo, is seeking to open a “small-scale” facility for raising and slaughtering goats and sheep in rural Glyndon. The ...

Five Pillars Butchery, an immigrant-owned halal butcher in Unity, and other small livestock producers are looking to establish a halal-certified meat cooperative with the help of a nonprofit ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A long fixture in Jacksonville’s Beach Boulevard shopping scene formally withdrew its request to build a halal meat-processing facility on its Beach Boulevard property after ...