Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It can be difficult to determine precisely what you’re getting and which brands of Organic Egg are the best because of labels like “cage-free” (which has no meaning), “free-range,” “pasture-raised,” etc. is really free-range, and each hen is guaranteed at least 14 square feet.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”? Photography by Lena Beck) Free Range: This means that the animal spends part of its time outside, uncaged. Farms must provide proof to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service of free-range conditions. Pasture-raised”?

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 31, 2023

People are cultishly fixated on free-range chickens. Virtually everyone had a story about predators, from hawks to neighbors’ dogs, attacking and eating these free range birds. While chickens free ranging on your 1-acre homestead are pretty, seeing the carnage after a predator attack is not.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Holsinger Homeplace Farms now provides other families excellent grassfed beef and eggs from free-range laying hens. Buck and AJ share their motivations and how they have a generational perspective.

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Caff

MARCH 4, 2022

Do you sell your produce as organic, local, free range, grass fed, etc. Interested in applying for the USDA's Value Added Producer Grant? OR make a finished product from your produce? Are you interested in exploring the feasibility of doing so?

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Farmbrite

MARCH 27, 2023

The Easter Egger also makes an excellent forager, so if you want to let your flock free range and scratch around for their own food in the yard, this breed will likely do well at it. This means they excel as free range chickens. They do best as a free range bird, and thrive in both hot and cold climates.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The challenge, for most meat-eaters out there, would be the significant reduction in the amount of pork, chicken and eggs available (due to the move away from permanently housed flocks and herds that are fed grain and imported protein feeds, to free-range, high-welfare systems). Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Since 2018, they have been producing and selling free-range chicken eggs and meat on the farm’s idyllic 40 acres. They were then able to retire, having leveraged the equity in their property. Lewis and Barker were able to buy the more affordable property without the development rights attached.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The products, Naturegg Solar Free Range and Nature Omega Plus Solar Free. Burnbrae Farms, a Canadian family-owned and operated egg company, is launching two new specialty offerings that showcase eggs that come from the company’s Woodstock, Ont., solar-powered farm. Read More

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Share Food Program

APRIL 27, 2023

The ultimate goal is for all of the 117 locations currently hosting Senior Food Box pickups to also have access to home delivery services, and for each program involved with home deliveries to have free range to get new sites trained to be able to serve even more people.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 13, 2022

He showed pictures of the “free range”, which was a tiny alcove smaller than your home’s bathroom, no grass, that the chickens would not even venture into. But unlike most eateries, he explained the fake grill lines to his customers. People flocked to the restaurant. He explained that all his claims about natural were meaningless.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

The USDA approved labels for “Pasture-Raised,” “Free-Range” and “Cage Free” can be deceiving. The key to finding true pasture-raised eggs is to buy from a local, trusted source. When purchasing eggs from a supermarket grocery store, you need to be aware that labels can be deceptive.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Whenever issues arise, such as the roaming habits of free-range chickens, they all sit down “as humans” to talk them through and come to a solution together. “They wanted the property used, but [they] didn’t have a strong driving vision,” says Scanes-Wolfe. She has been able to take the lead on the vision and growth of the farm.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

When Bill Clinton was elected president and hired a French chef who promised “free range chicken” the conservative talk-show and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan interviewed me for his show. Their silo is simple: make cows grow faster. Or chickens or pigs or whatever. Plenty of livestock is still getting antibiotics.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles. One scales a boulder and balances on its hind legs to take bites out of a tree branch. All 70 of the animals wear what look like big, boxy cowbells around their necks.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

If your eggs are organic or free-range, be sure to communicate it! Feel free to have signage that sings the praises of the egg’s taste and quality. According to the Food Marketing Institute, organic food purchasing is driven more by lifestyle than demographics, so seek out locations that appeal to the organic lifestyle.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 18, 2024

The “Free Range Conversation®” aimed to bring attention to the emotional well-being of the farmers and service providers in our ecosystem, and how they have been, and continue to be, impacted by the climate crisis.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Ensure that equipment and clothing used around livestock are sanitized and free from contaminants further reducing the risk of spreading pathogens. Try to control non-resident stray dogs and or cats Reduce contact with free-ranging wildlife including birds, waterfowl, and mammals.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 6, 2023

For instance, if you have free-range chickens you face different challenges than those who are managing chickens in confinement. If you are losing a lot of chickens you may have an illness going through your coop. This is something you need to catch early. Mortality can also depend on the way you are keeping chickens.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

With so many welfare-related labels – from RSPCA Assured to ‘free range’ – there needs to be a more integrated approach to both the collection of the data that inform these labels and the presentation of this information to consumers. So how can all of this information be conveyed to the consumer?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Holsinger Homeplace Farms now provides other families excellent grassfed beef and eggs from free-range laying hens. Buck and AJ share their motivations and how they have a generational perspective.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 9, 2024

As attorney general in California, she appealed a federal ruling that nixed California’s foie gras ban , and defended California’s law requiring humane, free-range facilities at egg farms. While Harris hasn’t formally outlined any agricultural policy plans for voters yet, Jonathan W.

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