SOROE, Denmark (Reuters) - Born and raised on a mink farm in eastern Denmark, Hans Henrik Jeppesen was about to take over the business from his father. The plan is now in tatters, after the government ...

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES, August 30, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The mink industry is experiencing dramatic and unprecedented decline, according to this year’s ...

EDEN VALLEY, Minn. - The release of an estimated 40,000 mink is now being called an incident of "domestic terrorism" by the Stearns County Sheriff. "They are not interested in animal rights, they are ...

SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) - A decade ago, fur rancher Bob Zimbal had about 34,000 mink at his three southeastern Wisconsin farms. He was in survival mode, struggling to compete with farmers producing ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House lawmakers have passed a ban on mink farming in the U.S. as part of an omnibus bill intended to strengthen American competition with China. Fur Commission USA, the trade ...

MILAN/COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Denmark's coronavirus-driven mink cull has put the fur business in a spin, with industry officials expecting fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Fendi ...

Workers at a fur farm in western Wisconsin are trying to recapture thousands of mink that were released last week, apparently during a raid by animal activists, authorities said. The Trempealeau ...

As coronavirus tears through the world’s mink farms, the pandemic is accelerating the shuttering of a controversial industry. Earlier this month, the Danish government ordered the country’s mink farms ...

Outbreaks of coronavirus have struck mink farms in Wisconsin and Michigan, but Illinois’ shrinking fur industry so far appears to have remained free of the disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

As he does every year about this time, bronzed, husky Herbert A. Nieman was grading pelts on his silver fox farm near Hermansville, Mich. But this year pelting was different. Nieman, the biggest U.S.