It's not worth the cost of eggs — cage-free chicken farming, that is. On March 21, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered a delay in the enforcement of cage-free chicken farming in Arizona in the hopes of lowering ...

Local chicken farmers are bumping up precautions after officials recently announced that bird flu has likely entered Massachusetts. State officials said last week they suspect the latest highly ...

Through a tangle of trees separating his land from a neighbor’s, Charles Blackmon stared glumly at the cluster of chicken barns where mountains of putrid waste are generated every year. It’s a scene ...

Owner Jeff Bednar collects the eggs from the nest box at Profound Foods, a local chicken farm, in Lucas, TX on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. The farm is seeing rising demand as Dallas-Fort Worth — and many ...

Jasmine Bryce started JB's Pastured Produce, a poultry farm, to reconnect with her rural roots. Bryce raises her chickens using humane practices, including open-air enclosures and non-GMO feed. She ...

Sometime this year, an initiative aiming to curtail factory farming will appear on local ballots. Its authors frame it as a ban on cruel and unsanitary industrial farms. The local agricultural ...