Apr. 9—LARNED — At Big R Farm and Ranch Store in Larned, head receiver Carol Stephenson is worried. On April 2, a shipment of 15 live ducks from the store's Hoover's Hatchery supplier in Texas was ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Chicks have been flying off the shelves — figuratively, of course. After a recent nationwide spike in egg prices, local agriculture stores have seen a surge in demand for chickens as ...

Caleb Smith grabs chicks for a shopper at the Anoka Ramsey Farm & Garden in Anoka, Minnesota, on Mar. 21, 2025. Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS MINNEAPOLIS — Chicks have been flying ...

At Family Farms in Davie, the weeks leading up to Easter are usually busy, especially at farmer Robert Hoover’s chicken roost. But not this busy. When shoppers flocked to supermarkets to panic-buy ...