TUSCARAWAS TWP. – The owner of a western Stark County mink farm said most of the animals released last week by a trespasser have been safely recovered or never left the property. Dennis Tonn of Tonn's ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act, which would end mink farming in Illinois to protect human health. Sponsored by ...

ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A mink farm in Northumberland County was attacked, letting out over 700 animals, and now two people facing charges. What’s more shocking is ...

With an upbringing steeped in animal agriculture, it’s fair to ask how I can now be a leading voice calling on Congress to shut down mink farms and to turn the page on an industry that’s been around ...

The happy-go-luck mink had no idea how lucky it was. As a child, Scott Beckstead watched the foreman at his grandfather’s mink farm keep the unnamed pet mink as his constant companion. Though the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — For over 65 years, Bernice and Frank Monteleone have been raising minks on their farm in Elgin. The couple bought their first mink in 1959 — a red female who was pregnant at the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bipartisan proposal in the U.S. House would ban the farming of mink fur in the United States in an effort to stem possible mutations of the coronavirus, something researchers ...

EBENSBURG – Longtime mink farmer George Rykola, 92, said when he saw flickering lights at the end of his property along the 500 block of Colver Road in Cambria Township, he thought it was two lovers ...

U.S. agencies have confirmed cases of the virus that causes COVID-19 at a mink farm in Oregon. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory tested 10 samples submitted ...

SPRINGFIELD — For over 65 years, Bernice and Frank Monteleone have been raising minks on their farm in Elgin. The couple bought their first mink in 1959 — a red female who was pregnant at the time.