Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

In 2016, two couples were searching for a change of life and the opportunity to create something they felt was meaningful and authentic. Nicole Schoneman, her partner Mark Veldman, Josh Jackson and ...

I am a regular reader of your column, and thank you so much for the wonderful pieces you write for us. I am seriously considering dairy goat farming. This is because I have a small piece of land from ...

EPWORTH, Iowa (AP) - When Craig Koopmann was 10 years old, he asked his godmother for a goat as a present. Since then, he and his brother Jack Koopmann have expanded Pleasant Grove Dairy Goat Farm to ...

Is offers rural households a sustainable source of income, nutrition and resilience, experts say.