North Fork Brewing Co. and other area businesses are stepping up to help the employees of Crescent Duck Farm, who are out of work after a bird flu outbreak forced the farm to shut down its ...
U.S. consumers have been seeing elevated egg prices since early 2022, said Curt Covington, senior director of managed accounts at AgAmerica, a nonbank agricultural lender.
A local hatchery has agreed to try to hatch the eggs, which may allow the farm to keep its genetic strain of delicious ducks — with an optimal meat-to-fat ratio — alive long enough to restart ...