This month, Farmer Goes to Market returns to answer some pressing reader questions on gestation crates in pork, and covers the potential impact of California's new hen-housing restrictions on the price of eggs throughout the country.

Behind this month's marketing stunt in which Chipotle restaurants fired a pork farmer for housing female pigs in individual crates, readers continued to ask several questions about this contentious practice. Here's some answers.

Standing on the shoulders of a stinging New York Times "expose" of Clay Center's Meat Animal Research Center, the Times editorializes against the evils of modern animal ag research. Here's what the controversy really means.

Egg prices jumped a dollar or more a dozen in late 2014, as the food-chain used market price to express uncertainty about what new animal-welfare regulations in California will mean to the longterm production cost of this dairy-case staple.

As a federal appeals court dismisses the latest round of litigation brought by U.S. meat interests against the Country of Origin Labeling regulation, does this signal the end of controversy?

First deeded in 1891, Madison's Neidig family farm has been recognized as a Pioneer Farm, a Nebraska farm that has been owned and farmed by the same family for 100 years. Check out their video story.

They sing well, but are ambush serenades really a good idea in a state where one in 53 people has a permit to carry a concealed weapon?

Mark your Calendars for these events:

March 3-5	FMI Annual Business Conference, Dallas, TX
March 9-12	FMI Asset Protection Conference, Jacksonville, FL
March 10	FMI Sustainability Imperative
April 30 - May 1	Washington Public Policy Conference