Animal Agriculture Crop Poultry 
Food Tank
JANUARY 10, 2025
Our area is very big into poultry. And getting into poultry got very, very expensive…because infrastructure [costs] really ramped up, says Hutton, who decided poultry farming was not the right fit for his family. Instead, the Huttons chose a different path. family farmers and ranchers.
Modern Farmer
MAY 7, 2024
When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming.
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Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garc é s has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. Watts, a former contract poultry farmer, represented everything Garc é s was against. MF: Large-scale animal agriculture CAFOs are disproportionately built in communities of color.
Modern Farmer
MAY 7, 2024
According to Angela de Freitas, director of farm transitions for Animal Outlook, these are conditions such as varying amounts of debt, regional positioning, knowledge of how to do other things, whether or not there is off-farm income, what kind of regional collaborators or partners exist and a farmer’s risk tolerance for trying something new.
Agwired
JANUARY 29, 2024
Harvest Analysis has collected and assessed almost 450 new-crop samples from across the U.S., Innovative Solutions , a division of KENT Nutrition Group, introduces HUMISYN, a synergistic blend of organic acid sources that shows great promise in helping to reduce the effects of a common disease in poultry by improving overall gut health.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
As the Walton Family Foundation’s executive director recently wrote in a blog post , “The relentless demand for increased production and higher crop yields has come with a high cost—degraded soil health and lower water quality.” What’s more, deforestation is one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture.
Agwired
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Experimental lines of field corn developed by a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists will usher in new commercial hybrids offering high-methionine grain. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) awarded the 2023 Clean Water Award to Tyson Foods in Russellville, Ark.
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