Gardening. One of the easiest ways to make a chicken coop environmentally friendly is to combine it with a vegetable garden. Chickens produce high-quality, nitrogen-rich, nontoxic, free fertilizer, so ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. The high cost of eggs and the arrival of spring is generating ...

For the past decade, one peculiar story has made the rounds, detailing something out of a futuristic, dystopian movie: a high-tech, fully automated egg city in China. It’s a place that poultry farmers ...

Raising chickens is rapidly becoming a lucrative farming enterprise that provides affordable protein to households across the country.However, there are critical factors that farmers must understand ...

For climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. That’s largely thanks to the outsized climate footprint of factory farmed beef, which contributes more greenhouse gases per serving to ...

Arizona, did you know that you can rent a chicken? Backyard chicken keeping is exploding across Arizona since recent law changes made it easier for families to raise hens at home. With egg prices ...

This excerpt has been edited for length. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming, is available for purchase now. In the spring of 2014, I found myself sitting across from a man ...