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One contract chicken grower’s complaints against the current system — stagnating income and rapidly increasing expenses for growers — are why, if he doesn’t see reforms, he’ll be shutting his doors soon.

When “Vanilla Ice Goes Amish” pops up in the listings, even the most jaded viewer might take pause.

Residents of the state can already hunt alligators and buy alligator meat, but there is no way for residents to raise the nation's largest reptiles as livestock.

The farm census, only released every five years, is reams and reams of data about America’s farms. Here’s six important takeaways.

It was a major drug bust. 1,600 arrests and over 11,000 pounds of a highly addictive substance confiscated. But it wasn’t the DEA breaking up a meth ring. It was the Chinese, stopping the British from importing opium.

Many farmers actually started raising ducks because of personal nutritional needs, and then found that there was a demand for duck products almost by accident.

At the Charleston Tea Plantation, you can buy some of the only tea grown in America — and gathered using a one-of-a-kind tea harvester.

To walk around Champoeg Farm, is to witness an impressive balance of pragmatism and experimentation. Perhaps most illustrative of this balance is the brooding house. Mark's young ...

Can a new boom in deer farming bring venison to the masses?