Search Results
Celebrating Tradition on an Egg Farm
By Jordan Hertzfeld, 4th Generation Egg Farmer. Hertzfeld Poultry Farm, Grand Rapids, OH. Like most kids, I loved rides. Only my favorites weren’t at any of Ohio’s amusement parks or carnivals. I preferred hopping on one of the tractors right here at Hertzfeld Poultry Farm, in my hometown of Grand Rapids. I still do. Only now, […]
Life in the Egg Basket of the Midwest
By Mindy Truex, 3rd Generation Egg Farmer. Creighton Brothers Family Farm, Warsaw, IN. Four feet, 10 inches. I remember when I couldn’t wait to be four feet, 10 inches. That’s how tall you needed to be to stand over a table in order to count chicks in our hatchery. Or at least that’s what my […]
We Are Prairie Proud Farmers
By Jason and Tracy Ramsdell, 2nd Generation Egg Farmer. Dakota Layers Family Farm, Flandreau, SD. We are a pretty tough breed here in eastern South Dakota. With record heat in the summer and blizzards in the winter, we have to be. Life doesn’t stop during harsh weather. Particularly when you are part of the agriculture […]
I’m a Proud Egg Farmer, Today and Every Day
By Vanessa Brey, 4th Generation Egg Farmer. Brey’s Egg Farm, Jeffersonville, NY. I’m a fourth-generation farmer, working with my dad, Daniel and my mom, Nancy, on the upstate New York farm my great-grandfather, Harold, founded in 1932. I think he would be proud to see how we have grown and evolved over the years from […]
The West Coast is the best coast…for Farming.
By Anthony Demler, 3rd Generation Egg Farmer. Demler Brothers Pine Hill Egg Ranch, Ramona, CA. Right off Highway 78 and close enough to San Diego that we can feel the ocean breeze and salt in the air, sits my family’s farm, Demler Brothers Pine Hill. As a third-generation farmer, I was raised surrounded by agriculture. […]
A Woman-Owned Enterprise in the Land of 10,000 Lakes
By Britta McGuire, 3rd Generation Egg Farmer, Sparboe Farms, Litchfield, MN Work and play. Labor and leisure. To my grandfather, Bob Sparboe, they were one and the same. He liked to quote a poet, who wrote: “A master in the art of living … always appears to be doing both.” My mother, sisters and I […]
The Incredible Egg Reveals How to Celebrate Easter In Your Personal Entertaining Style
March 26, 2019
New, On-Trend Egg Recipes and Egg Decorating Techniques Help You Make Easter Your Own CHICAGO (March 26, 2019) — Eggs are never more top of mind than during the Easter season. Last Easter, Americans ate more than 2.9 billion eggs, with demand for eggs at Easter up 6.2 percent versus 20151. American egg farmers worked diligently to […]
Sustainable Nutrition for Women and Children: Eggs as Part of the Global Solution
February 21, 2019
Featured article in the Winter 2019 Issue of Nutrition Close-Up; written by Jen Houchins, PhD, RD In the context of the global focus to end hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food, a 2018 Maternal and Child Nutrition supplement explores a unique opportunity to address stunting and malnutrition through improved access to and increased […]
Choline – The Underconsumed and Underappreciated Essential Nutrient
February 21, 2019
Featured article in the Winter 2019 Issue of Nutrition Close-Up; written by Taylor C. Wallace, PhD, CFS, FACN “Recognition of the growing evidence relating inadequate intakes to health consequences coupled with evidence of suboptimal intakes in high-risk populations, warrants a need for improved public health recommendations for choline” was the consensus of more than 40 experts […]
Power of the First 1000 Days: Early Nutrition for Lifelong Health
February 21, 2019
Featured article in the Winter 2019 Issue of Nutrition Close-Up; written by Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RDN Good nutrition is important at every stage of life but most dynamic and with the greatest vulnerability in the first 1000 days (pregnancy and the first two years). Researchers are connecting the impact of vital nutrients early in life with […]