Re: “Legislation needed to protect wild deer population,” Another View, Aug. 24: Jenny Sanders of Texans for Saving Our Hunting Heritage recently took to these pages to claim that deer breeding, a ...

BULLARD, Texas — A whitetail deer farm out in Bullard is using genetics and breeding to help build a herd resistant to chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological illness found among the deer family ...

Alabama allows licensed individuals to breed whitetails in captivity, but they are still considered a state resource under current law. The proposed legislation would make those pen-raised whitetails ...

Minnesota requires farmed deer to have ear tags or another type of identification. The new law clarifies that this identification must be visible to the naked eye from a distance of 50 yards. A group ...

Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological illness, continues to spread in Minnesota’s deer population. Credit: Creative Commons/Christa R. Minnesota farms that raise elk and deer for meat or ...

Owners of commercial deer farms in Pennsylvania are concerned that continued restrictions to curb the spread of chronic wasting disease could put the industry out of business. In March, Kip Adams, the ...

One of Texas' fastest-growing ranching businesses has nothing to do with what people usually think of as ranch animals. Deer ranching has become a big-time business in the state, as well as across the ...

At LedgEnd Farm, fallow deer are kept in four distinct groups: does and older fawns, bucks and breeding bucks, younger bucks known as spikers, and another breed that has strong Mediterranean genes.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Environmentalists and animal rights advocates want state wildlife officials to put more restrictions on deer farming and hunting as Florida responds to the long-expected arrival of ...

The president of the Minnesota Deer Farmers Association said herd owners across the state are reeling from a sweeping change in regulations adopted last month by the state Legislature. "It's just a ...