A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

March 28--A mobile processing unit is expected to be available this spring to help smallvolume growers prepare their animals for market. Another option will soon be available to small animal producers ...

To help farmers meet growing consumer demand for local meats, the Maryland Department of Agriculture in partnership with the University of Maryland and Southern Maryland Agricultural Development ...

Cook County- Carroll Bullard is a lifetime farmer. For many years, he's grown corn, cotton, and peanuts. But Carol recently had a new farming idea. "A rabbit ran out of the corn field, and we thought ...

ANNAPOLIS — To help farmers meet growing consumer demand for local meats, the Maryland Department of Agriculture will conduct training workshops in Annapolis and Prince Frederick for on-farm poultry ...

Sebastien Bonneu knows he has a dirty job. Raising fowl and rabbits is one thing, but slaughtering and processing them for sale is another, more gruesome and intimate task. “It’s like any other line ...

SEBEKA, Minn — Perry Cuperus learned as a pre-teen growing up in Michigan that you just don’t pull rabbits out of a hat. While on some ‘hare’ raising tours in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and ...