Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...

However, modern farming practices have advanced significantly, and many farm-raised foods now match or even surpass their wild counterparts. In several cases, farm-raised products are cleaner, more ...

Some farmers growing shrimp in Midwestern ponds say they do it for love, not money. Despite recent advances in feed and efforts by several states... It's harvest time in the heartland, but not just ...

NASHVILLE -- It is a crop largely unheard of in Tennessee and mostly unseen, growers say. But hundreds of miles from any ocean, about 20 farmers in places such as Springfield, Jackson and Morristown ...

They had to be convinced. Dan Cook and Doug Elder, co-founders of Freedom Freshwater Shrimp Co., were a bit skeptical when they heard that some farmers in Kentucky were starting up shrimp farms. Armed ...

Shrimp trawling is considered one of the most wasteful kinds of commercial fishing because of the immense volume of marine life that is incidentally captured and destroyed in shrimp nets. The bottom ...

Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...