NEW YORK – New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions of ...

The future of Long Island duck farming now depends on roughly 3,700 newly hatched ducklings. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, the last of its kind in a category that once defined Long Island ...

Duck farming once defined Long Island agriculture, with up to 99 farms once operating here, most on the East End, but now ...

The news hit hard: Bird flu had struck Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, forcing the well-known supplier to euthanize all 99,000 of its ducks. It was a devastating reminder of the many ways one can ...

Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host to ...

The Crescent Duck Farm on Long Island’s north fork is 117 years old, the last of the island’s duck farms — a region that was once the duck capital of the country — and the supplier that many of the ...

AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in January.