La Trobe University researchers have developed a new way to measure and report the environmental performance of farms in a move that could pave the way for future "sustainability ratings" on consumer ...

While U.S. cattle herd size contracts, feedlot sectors in South America, Africa, and Australia expand, reshaping where the ...

Meaningfully increasing rural incomes means, at least in part, commercialisation of small holder agriculture. Value addition of agricultural produce, tourism and the digital economy, offer other ...

The California-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) just published an interactive map and database of the 1300+ largest factory farms in California, sharing exactly where these ...

A few days before the January storm that dumped up to 13 inches of snow in Lancaster County, Lancaster Farm Sanctuary volunteers responded to a call to rescue a turkey ...

But it’s not that simple: The US cattle herd has shrunk in recent years to the smallest since the early 1950s because droughts and higher production costs, including elevated interest rates, have made ...

Iowa Farm Sanctuary speaks to the progress of farm animal welfare in Iowa, how to further advance humane treatment and the significance of the vegan organization's 10-year milestone in America's top ...

Animal activists blasted a plan to open an organic egg farm with 6,000 chicken on Long Island — calling it a “factory’ that could be a legitimate public health risk.

Careful overhead cost management and strategic outsourcing can help smaller producers see significant cost benefits.

A proposal for a small-scale animal slaughter facility on a 20-acre property in Rio Linda is facing strong community pushback. A secret FBI bust nabbed an alleged drug lord—and rocked ties with Mexico ...

Who grows our food? This seemingly simple question is getting harder to answer in a world where our food crosses borders to get to our plate. The contribution of small and industrial-scale farming to ...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...