Farmers and food industry leaders are warning that President-elect Donad Trump’s plans to deport millions of immigrants could devastate agriculture — an industry in which immigrants make up a good ...
Maddie Hokanson follows a simple, but profound, philosophy in life: start with why. As a seventh-generation farmer with ...
Decisions around sow barn remodeling, reducing sow herd inventory, and adjusting gilt flow are some of the challenges U.S. pork producers face as they explore and consider options to make farms ...
Cooper Farms hosted area legislators for tours in the first week of September. Photo courtesy of Colin Kriegel, Cooper Farms OAKWOOD — During the week of Sept. 2-6, Cooper Farms hosted area ...
Pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc. said Thursday it will phase out gestation stalls or crates at all 187 sow farms it owns in eight states and replace them with "more animal-friendly" group housing ...
A new farm near Thorp run by New Fashion Pork with the capacity for a 1,400-sow operation will be using the Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding system. Nedap said the system on what’s called the “Old Fashion ...
MOORHEAD, MN (Valley News Live) - It’s the first week of planting at “Farm in the Dell of the Red River Valley.” The local farm is providing job opportunities for people with developmental ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For the past several weeks, Marie-Claude Comeau has spent her days in the fields on ...
HINESBURG - Pre-coronavirus, the farm's plan for its first season was straightforward: to cultivate specialty vegetables and herbs that no restaurant chef could resist. Matt Lasser and Josh Fisher, ...
Northern Michigan flower farmer Charla Burgess wears many hats—mother, gardener, activist. She’s weathered storms in her life, but nurturing her children, her community and her field of flowers has ...
STAPLES, Minn. — At the start of February 2024, a new boar stud facility in rural Staples welcomed its first batch of eligible bachelors. The state-of-the-art facility is considered the “Fort Knox” of ...