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They Once Worked in Factory Farming. Not Anymore.

Modern Farmer

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. Now to have come through it, it’s been a long process,” says Boles. “It

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Exiting the Factory Farm

Modern Farmer

When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We We started to see all these family farms just disappearing,” he says. And then it became this kind of existential thought process for us on, you know, what is the future of this farm?”

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For Contract Farmers, the Election Could Change Everything—or Nothing at All

Civil Eats

Minh started raising chickens in 2016, when he and Nhu-Hai took out a federal loan to purchase a farm with eight long metal barns built for housing poultry. A USDA spokesperson said the agency used maximum resources to expedite the pace but that the rulemaking process is complex. What a monopoly does.

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