5 days ago · Long Island's last duck farm weighs closure after outbreak leads to killing of entire flock. Doug Corwin, whose family has owned the roughly 140-acre farm since the 1640s, said he was forced to ...

5 days ago · NEW YORK -- New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter ...

5 days ago · Long Island was once a center of duck production in the U.S., thanks to its abundance of freshwater streams, friendly climate and proximity to major East Coast cities.. During its heyday in the ...

6 days ago · Duck farming was once a pillar of the economy on Long Island, especially in the more rural eastern stretches of Suffolk. In 1940, there were 90 duck farms in the towns of Brookhaven, Southampton ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Future of Long Island’s last duck farm is uncertain Doug Corwin surrounded by 4-day-old ducklings on his family’s Aquebogue duck farm, Long Island’s last. RiverheadLOCAL/ Denise Civiletti (2020 file photo) Corwin said the outbreak at his family’s farm leaves its future up in the air. After culling operations are completed, which will ...

Jan 18, 2021 · The last Long Island Duck farm is not resting on it’s laurels, still looking to the future! They are in the midst of an ambitious five-year, $3 million plan to build a new, modern hatchery facility on the 145-acre Aquebogue farm. The new hatchery is scheduled to open in September 2021.

5 days ago · FILE - Long Island ducks used as breeding stock at Crescent Duck Farm, move around a barn, in Aquebogue, N.Y., Oct. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

The duck meat business migrated to giant farms in the Midwest, where real estate was cheaper and ducks could be raised indoors year-round. Doug Corwin remembers the tumultuous events of 1987 because Crescent was suddenly one of the few Long Island farms left — …

5 days ago · FILE - Long Island ducks used as breeding stock at Crescent Duck Farm, move around a barn, in Aquebogue, N.Y., Oct. 29, 2014. ... Crescent Duck Farm has been the island’s lone remaining ...