Column: Let's raise bar on the American food system and shift to Real Organic farms
Real Organic smaller farms are proven to be more productive than their enormous industrial counterparts and are far better ...
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How D'Artagnan Pioneered The U.S. Organic Poultry Industry
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the business of food & drink. "Factory farmed meat doesn't cost much on paper, when you go to the store. But it costs a lot ...
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A rigged game? Poultry farmers complain of big debt, unreliable income
Unlike crop farming, raising chickens and turkeys doesn’t require ... They’ve converted them to greenhouses to grow organic vegetables. Charlotte Observer data reporter Gavin Off contributed ...
Rise in bird flu cases has increased egg prices, leading some locals to raise chickens
If you’ve been to the store recently and feel like you’re spending more money on eggs than in the past, you are not alone. A ...
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With little oversight, NC poultry farms raise 1 billion birds a year. Who pays the cost?
More are on the way. Poultry farms now dot most of North Carolina. The smallest farms raise about 20,000 chickens at a time. The largest: more than 1.5 million. This map, built from two datasets ...