Some one million cattle confined in Colorado factory feedlots produce 24 billion pounds of manure each year. That's four ...

PETA supporters in New York City on Thursday protested at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ...

“Fremont is an egg factory,” Bittner told me when I visited her late last year. “It’s not a farm.” The US Environmental Protection Agency categorizes egg farms with 82,000 or more hens ...

A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale — developed in the second half of the 20th ...

By Sophie Kevany for Sentient. Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Kentucky News Connection reporting for the ...

Readers disagree with an essay about factory farms. To the Editor: Re “Factory Farms Are Our Best Hope for Feeding the Planet,” by Michael Grunwald (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 15): As executive ...

Factory farms create the ideal breeding grounds for infectious diseases like bird flu. The vast majority of U.S. broiler chickens (78%) and U.S. egg laying hens (75%) are raised on factory farms, ...

There’s a lot going on in farming these days. Some farmers are looking at succession plans, trying to figure out who will take over the family business. Others are looking to transition away from ...

While many of the state’s largest factory farms operate on the eastern side of the state in and around Kewaunee County, communities across western Wisconsin have been fighting the expansion of ...

Donald Trump's hatred of wind farms just killed a plan to build a factory that would have made parts for the farms, leading ...