Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about commodities through a four-decade lens of experience. The high cost of eggs and the arrival of spring is generating ...

The answer may surprise you. It's not instantly cheaper to raise chickens since there are various upfront costs, like buying the chickens and equipment. A couple of factors to consider before building ...

My father was a chicken farmer. Well, that may overstate things. In reality, my father was a central school principal who had a few chickens in a coop behind the barn near our house in Little Valley, ...