At Ho-Ka Turkey Farm in Waterman, Ill., they raise 70,000 free range turkeys here every year. They are fresh birds and in this business that means they won't be frozen.

Local farms will begin taking orders Oct. 24 for farm-raised, free-range Thanksgiving turkeys. Prices, deadlines. News Sports Rockland Westchester Food Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

So, if you want to support a specific farm or production style, you can. Just know that all turkeys raised in the United States today, whether free-range turkey or antibiotic-free, ...

Athamanah did note that free-range turkeys have a more varied diet with plants that can yield higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which can help improve cardiovascular health.

Peterson said there would be only a handful of free-range turkey farms on a national level that produce the same kind of volume as Ferndale, which markets 150,000 turkeys a year from its farm.

That's a question free-range egg producers have been pondering lately as they try to protect chickens from a highly infectious bird flu that has killed roughly 28 million poultry across the country.

Bowman estimates that 90 percent of the turkey industry keeps its birds in barns exclusively, but Bowman & Landes has been free-range since its inception, when free-range farms were the norm. “The ...

At a family farm in Texas, the free range turkeys raised by Angela Smith and her son Colby sell out every Thanksgiving. There's usually a waiting list for their fresh birds.

Some contend that free-range poultry face less bird flu risk. ... nearly all of the 88 farms decimated by the highly lethal H5N2 virus in Minnesota have been confined turkey operations, ...