For a while, emu farming was all the rage among people searching for a slower lifestyle or looking for other ways to use their extra land. But the desire to eat the meat of these large, flightless ...

Some people come away from the Minnesota State Fair with fresh ideas about canning, cooking or butter sculpting, but Tom and Mary Lakner might be the only people who've ever left the fairgrounds ...

Emu ranchers had hoped the lamebrained, arguably ugly birds with useless wings would take flight in agribusiness. But emu ranching - like some other types of nontraditional livestock operations- is ...

Emus are pretty exceptional birds. Averaging almost six feet tall, they’re the second tallest bird in the world, only after ostriches. They weigh more than 100 pounds, and they can’t fly. But, like ...

FARGO — The American Emu Association is coming to Fargo for its convention Sept. 15-17. While interest in the emu industry has waned since its heyday in the mid-1990s, about 35 to 40 emu enthusiasts ...

Emus at the Montana Emu Ranch. KALISPELL, Mont. — Emus are curious birds, longtime rancher Don Collins mused as he entered a pen full of yearlings. About 20 of the large, flightless birds immediately ...

KALISPELL — It sounded like a muted bongo drum, the thud-thud-thud working its way up a snowy hill at one of the last remaining emu ranches in Montana. More drums joined in, making the fields seem ...

Aug. 9, 1945, in The Star: Monday, Sept. 3, will find Anniston schoolchildren back in their classrooms for the fall semester, but because that day is also Labor Day, their classes will let out at noon ...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Emu ranchers had hoped the lame-brained, arguably ugly birds with useless wings would take flight in agribusiness. But emu ranching - like some other types of nontraditional livestock ...