While the number of independent hog farms has plummeted in Midwestern states, replaced by conglomerates with more than 500,000 swine, the tally of small pig farms in New Hampshire is climbing, ...
After a major outbreak of African swine fever in 2018, China massively industrialized its pig farming sector to ensure food ...
Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...
I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...
Pollution from the “huge” pig and poultry farming sectors is harming rivers, the wider landscape and nature, a report from the Wildlife Trusts warns. The findings from the report into the ...