According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), each American eats approximately 94 pounds of chicken a year (1). The consumption of chicken is expected to grow in the coming years, ...

Chicken producer Perdue Farms has been expanding the volume of free-range chickens it sells in an effort to provide a higher-quality product, as well as to boast a better lifestyle for the birds. That ...

Packages of Perdue Harvestland “free range” chicken sit on a refrigerated store shelf. Just because a package says “free range” doesn’t necessarily mean the chicken ever left the barn. Ames Alexander ...

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 ...

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2015, file photo, cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa. Some farmers are wondering if it's OK that eggs sold as free-range come from ...

Danish researchers have achieved a reduction in Campylobacter in chickens by adding additives to their feed. Scientists from DTU National Food Institute conducted trials at a free-range chicken farm ...

Des Moines, Iowa — Is it OK for free-range chickens to not range freely? That’s a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to be open about their product while also ...

Foster Farms launched a line of free-range chicken Thursday, produced from birds that have access to the outdoors. The Livingston-based company, the top-selling poultry brand in the West, is offering ...

Foster Farms launched a line of free-range chicken Thursday, produced from birds that have access to the outdoors. The Livingston-based company, the top-selling poultry brand in the West, is offering ...