The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is withdrawing a proposed rule which would have limited the amount of ...

At midnight one day in spring 2023, a team of animal rights investigators decked out in biosecurity gear snuck onto a massive chicken farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, an hour and a half drive from ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture is withdrawing a proposal aimed at reducing risks from Salmonella in ...

So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...

Bird flu would be much less of a threat if we spread chickens out across the country instead of concentrating them together ...

More than 50,5 million birds in US poultry farms have been slaughtered because of outbreaks of avian flu among flocks in over forty states, according to the Department of Agriculture. The disease ...

Why is it that [people’s access to fresh fruits and vegetables] is somehow considered optional?” asks one southern Illinois ...

When Illinois named small farmer Nathan Ryder a finalist for a federal $100,000 Local Food Infrastructure Grant, he made big ...

The drug has been banned for its use in food animals in the United States since 2002. According to Amanda Irwin, president of Mountaire Farms, the company has not used furazolidone in its process of ...