The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by ...

Sheep farmers are being urged to conduct regular faecal egg counts, as data reveals there is no such thing as a ‘regular worm ...

Fintech entrepreneur Pieter de Wet, who farms Meatmaster sheep in the Klein Karoo, spoke to Glenneis Kriel about how he is ...

A developer has submitted plans to transform the site of a former sheep shears factory into homes and apartments. Metal trades company Burgon & Ball started manufacturing agricultural shears in ...

In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can. However in factory farms, animals are fed grain that could be used to ...

Extended video footage from the investigation reveals shearers beating, kicking, and throwing petrified sheep down chutes and slamming them into floors; workers cutting holes in lambs’ ears and ...

Over 9.7 billion chickens, pigs, cattle, turkeys, sheep, goats, ducks, and geese are bred ... industrial agriculture systems known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred ...

The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S. and in the plain fields of Texas. In Milam County, outside Austin, SB Energy ...

Residents and farming supporters in the Swindale valley on the eastern edge of the Lake District have voiced their dismay at the decision to remove sheep from two RSPB tenanted farms. Since 2012 ...