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The story of the French Chicken Farmer reminds one of the 1950s sitcom Green Acres. You know, the show about the couple who moves from a glamorous life in New York City to try their hand at working ...

Evan Streeter specifically remembers one crisp October morning last year when one of his sows was nursing a litter of 16 piglets. The sun was bursting through the trees and in the distance, orange, ...

To have a fulfilling life, cows arguably must be allowed outside. But what constitutes a ‘free-range’ cow is ambiguous. For optimum welfare, farmers must balance time outdoors and time indoors. While ...

North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the point regulators don’t even know where most of the farms are located. Neighbors complain about the stench ...

A farmer’s son has harnessed his technological expertise in a drive to help small-scale free range egg producers.