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Originally, the primary value in poultry keeping was eggs, and meat was considered a byproduct of egg production. [2] A United States Department of the Interior census in 1840 found American farmers had a total combined poultry flock valued at approximately $12 million ($366 million in today's dollars). [3]
The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.
Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers.
A Companion to American Agricultural History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022) Lauck, Jon. American agriculture and the problem of monopoly: the political economy of grain belt farming, 1953-1980 (U of Nebraska Press, 2000). Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. ed. The Routledge History of Rural America (2018) Schapsmeier, Edward L; and Frederick H. Schapsmeier.
The social history of American agriculture (1936) online; Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History (Greenwood, 1975) Schob, David E. Hired hands and plowboys: farm labor in the Midwest, 1815-60 (1975), pp. 173–249. Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) online
About 230,000 North Carolinians lived within a half-mile of a poultry farm in 2022, the Big Poultry investigation concluded. A single poultry barn can measure 600-feet-long and house some 40,000 ...
Pages in category "Poultry farming in the United States" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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