Jan 24, 2025 · A New York region once synonymous in the culinary world for duck may lose its last commercial farm. Crescent Duck Farm on Long Island’s North Fork was struck by an …

Jan 23, 2025 · The farm, which is the last commercial duck farm on Long Island, was forced to cease operations and begin the process of euthanizing its entire flock of more than 100,000 …

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 …

Jan 25, 2025 · 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)

Jan 22, 2025 · It’s a fowl day on the East End. An outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has struck Long Island’s last remaining duck farm and forced the operators to put down 99,000 birds, according …

Jan 24, 2025 · Long Island's last duck farm hit by bird flu. Nearly 10,000 killed to stem outbreak Owner Doug Corwin said Friday that the destruction of about 100,000 birds on the now …

Jan 23, 2025 · 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 …

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 …

Jan 24, 2025 · During its heyday in the early 1960s, the region boasted more than 100 farms, producing up to 7.5 million birds annually, or about two-thirds of the nation’s duck output. …

Jan 29, 2025 · Last week, Crescent Duck Farm, the utmost large duck farm on Long Island had to cull its entire flock of 99,000 ducks as a health prevention measure, due to the bird flu that …