Organic” has become the golden label of modern food marketing — but when it comes to poultry feed, does it actually deliver ...

Omnibus spending bills in Congress start out humongous and only grow larger as they pick up–often at the last minute and beyond public scrutiny–special-interest amendments, pork barrel add-ons ...

The Senate has repealed an exemption that allowed chicken farmers to call their product organic even if the chickens never ate organic meal, as long as the farmers could prove there was a shortage ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Mile Four is a new eCommerce store shipping fresh, organic whole grain chicken feed nationwide. Offering subscription and one-time sales, the company is targeting the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organically fed chickens develop a different process of gene expression in their small intestines than that of chickens which get conventional feed. The organic chickens have ...

Our top organic chicken feed pick, Kalmbach Feeds Organic 17% Layer Crumbles is a crumble recipe that's made in the US and is non-GMO and USDA-certified organic. The base of this crumble recipe is ...

With organic chickens, the birds need access to sunlight, to the outdoors, organically raised feed and enrichments inside the poultry house, he said.

Organic foods comprise nearly 5 percent of food sales in the US, while organic farm acreage is only about 0.6 percent of total US farmland, implying that most organic food is imported – as far from ...

Organic hens are fed mostly stored organic feed, but do not receive much nutritional value from outdoor food. 4. Pasture-raised eggs. A group of pasture raised chickens on a farm in Illinois (iStock) ...

In the week ended March 19, 420,624 organic chickens were slaughtered, an increase of 22 percent from a year earlier, government data show. Over that same period, weekly egg output jumped 36 percent.