Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—LARNED — At Big R Farm and Ranch Store in Larned, head receiver Carol Stephenson is worried. On April 2, a shipment of 15 ...

A new study finds 13-percent of all homes in America now have some sort of backyard bird flock, and the nation’s largest producer of “pet” poultry is in north-central Iowa. Rudd-based Hoover’s ...

RUDD, Iowa, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoover's Hatchery, the largest provider of backyard poultry in the United States, is officially launching its first-ever consumer product: a premium chicken ...

RUDD — Mary Halsted of Rudd is considered by her peers to be an absolute servant to Hoover’s Hatchery, the community of Rudd and the poultry industry for the past 44 years. Steven Thompson is a ...

Kelsey Spotts is the marketing manager at Hoover's Hatchery. She grew up on a farm and graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Agriculture Communications in 2016. Her passion for ...