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The Hack/Meat conference saw tech whizzes, butchers and restauranteurs put their brain-muscles to work to ease butcher-troubles, improve quality and satisfy all.

With blue heads, bright red wattles and spectacular tiers of bronze, black and beige feathers, wild turkeys can be exceptionally beautiful creatures. Benjamin Franklin himself, in ...

From China to the UK, why food safety is now a global obsession.

Richard “Dick” Turpin was a highwayman, murderer and thug, but most of all he was a horse thief.

The Amish don’t gamble – but they buy their buggy horses from people who do. For horses who don’t make it at the races, a second chance arrives in the form of Joel Brenneman.

Surprising most political observers, the House farm bill went down in flames by a vote of 234-195 today. Congressman Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon's 3rd district, had a f...

Jay Vogler was a produce farmer for many years in Charlotte, VT. In 1993, he added a small herd of sheep to his farm, despite having "no idea what he was doing." Vogler made many m...

Although summer officially begins tomorrow, its start date means less and less every year: thanks to climate change, some parts of the country have felt like mid-July since May, wh...

The Modern Farmer team got a treat via parcel post last month.