Across Maine, and much of the country, a rise in egg prices and anxieties — over avian flu, price stability, trade — has fueled a similar increase in demand for backyard chicks.
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Looking for an alternative source for eggs? Try your local farm.
At farm stands across Maine, you’ll pay less than half of what you would in a grocery store, if you go early.
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Steeper by the dozen: Avian flu sends egg prices soaring
The disease has driven prices up and supplies down, affecting Maine farms, stores, restaurants and egg lovers in different ways.
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Small Midcoast farms reluctantly hike egg prices for the first time in years, but not for same reason as big farms
National egg distributors claim avian flu as the culprit for soaring egg prices, but local farmers attribute it to rising fuel and feed costs.
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Decosters ordered to report to prison for salmonella outbreak
A father and son whose Iowa-based egg production company caused a massive 2010 salmonella outbreak have exhausted their appeals and a federal judge has ordered them to begin serving prison sentences. The U.S. Supreme Court declined in May to hear the appeals of Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, without comment. Both have […]
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Hillandale Farms donates 9,000 dozen egs to Good Shepherd
AUBURN — Now that would make a really big omelet. Maine’s egg farmers are donating more than 100,000 eggs to people in need of food assistance just in time for Easter. Hillandale Farms — which runs an egg farm in Turner — says it’s giving 9,000 dozen eggs to Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn. […]
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Lewiston sets path for urban chickens
LEWISTON — Chickens could be welcome in city residential lots larger than half an acre, if their owners get a one-time $40 permit, councilors said Tuesday. Councilors grappled with easing city rules related to letting residents keep hens at a workshop meeting, a prelude to a potential vote later this summer. City Planner Dave Hediger said […]
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Gov. Paul LePage rips Humane Society for egg farm undercover video
UPDATE: Humane Society says LePage wrong; state knew about egg farm sting AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage blasted the Humane Society of the United States Friday over its recently released footage from an undercover operation at a Turner egg farm. In a letter to the society’s CEO Wayne Pacelle, and released to the media, LePage expressed […]
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State says eggs at Turner farm safe for consumption
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry said in a statement Wednesday that the eggs from a Turner farm are safe for consumption. The statement confirmed that the department was investigating an undercover video released Tuesday by the Humane Society of the United States that claims to show animal abuse at the […]
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Turner egg farm subject of U.S. Humane Society undercover sting
Paul Shapiro, vice president for farm animal protection with the society, described the footage as part of a Humane Society of the United States investigation and “whistle-blowing operation.” The society called on state and federal agencies to investigate the farm and said it had contacted officials within the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the U.S. […]