Capital Press

Two sites for planned chicken farms up for sale

SCIO, Ore. — Two properties that had been planned as locations for large-scale chicken farms in Oregon’s Willamette Valley are up for sale. An application for Evergreen Ranch is still pending with the ...
Berkshire Eagle

The historic Otis Poultry Farm and the Farmington River Diner are for sale. Owners say they love both businesses but 'are tired'

OTIS — It’s been 16 years since Andy Pyenson stopped raising chickens at his longtime business, the Otis Poultry Farm. A few years after that, his wife, Lynn Pyenson, began running the Farmington ...
Yahoo

As poultry booms in NC, large farms can reduce the value of nearby homes, study finds

Living near a poultry farm in North Carolina can reduce a home’s value by up to 30%, according to a Duke University study. That finding comes as the number of birds North Carolina poultry farms raise ...
OPB

Oregon’s Linn County to revisit large-scale livestock rules following pushback from farm groups

Just six months after Linn County commissioners thought they’d voted to limit large-scale poultry farms, the commission is now revisiting its decision, after learning other livestock operations could ...
The State

State agency ignored court decision, now seeks to ease chicken farm rules, critics say

JASON VORHEES/THE TELEGRAPH Crawford County, GA, 10/31/2019: Young chickens inside a broiler house. Industrial scale chicken farms are easy to find in the Southeast. Jason Vorhees [email protected] ...