United Vaccines, maker of vaccines for mink used by fur farmers, has received the 2011 “Small Business of the Year” award for Dane Country. United Vaccines offers this bio on itself: Since 1960, United Vaccines, Inc. has been in the business of supplying quality vaccines to the fur farming community...

CAFF has received a report that the Parsons Mink Ranch in Salisbury, Maryland, has been confirmed closed. This is believed to be the last fur farm in Maryland.

This document was released two years ago and contains fur farm info obtained by the Fur Farm Intelligence Project since the release of The Blueprint fur farm list. View the  2010 supplement...

After budget cuts last year, it was announced the USDA will no longer be collecting data on mink farms. Previously, every year the USDA released statistics on the number of mink farms and animals killed for fur. Then in 2010, it was announced they would only be collecting data every five years. This document spells out the former methodology of fur farm data collection by the USDA, along with some statistics for...

One plant of the largest mink feed suppliers in the country is confirmed to be closed after a fire. Photos below confirm the building is a “total loss”, after a welder’s torch accidentally set the building on fire. The FBAC continues to operate a second plant in Logan, Utah;  which is presumed to be taking up the slack for the out of commission Sandy, Utah plant. The FBAC is necessary to the survival of the Utah fur industry. Utah is the second biggest fur farming...