Labour is one of the biggest costs associated with running a business and can be a barrier to farmers becoming employers. For ...

Plans for a free-range poultry shed, which will accommodate 28,000 egg-laying hens 100 metres south-east of 67 Drumahean Road, Middletown, have been given the ...

Rockingham County has declared a local state of emergency due to last weekend's winter storm and its impacts on farmers. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports. The accumulation of ice on top of snow has ...

The East Earl Township zoning hearing board on Monday approved a new breeding kennel for up to 50 dogs. The board granted a special exception to Louis Martin — who owns a 56-acre property at 483 Old ...

In the last few days there was more news about the chicken litter debate along the Arkansas/Oklahoma line. Specifically, that part of the line that holds the Illinois River watershed. A settlement was ...

At Woodend Farm on the Scottish Borders, manure produced by the farm’s 32,000 free-range hens is mixed with woodchip, chopped straw and an inoculant rich in microbes. By sealing this in an anaerobic ...

After a landmark legal judgement forced several poultry companies to pay fines and clean up chicken litter pollution in the Illinois River, George’s Inc. opted to settle with Oklahoma for a better ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – On Wednesday, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office announced a settlement agreement has been reached with George’s Inc., ending the poultry litter pollution case in the ...

An order in a decades-long lawsuit between Oklahoma and several major poultry companies operating in Arkansas — including Springdale-based Tyson Foods — was handed down by a federal judge in Tulsa ...

Gov. Stitt hosted a meeting on Dec. 16 in Adair County to hear from poultry farmers there. Farmers said they are worried they will lose their income if poultry companies like Tyson pull production ...