NEWS & PRESS
Welcome to our new Crescent Duck Website
04.18.2012
Crescent Duck is pleased to announce the release of our new website – www.crescentduck.com. Our new site has been designed with a fresh new look and has been updated with information about our latest products and services, including our family and company history that dates back to 1640!

Additionally, our new website will provide support and information to answer our customer's most commo...
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We're Exhibiting at the NY Restaurant & Foodservice Show
02.16.2012
New York City chefs and restauranteurs, stop by and visit us this March at the NYC Restaurant and Foodservice Show. This is a must-attend event for anyone involved in the restaurant, foodservice or hospitality industry.

This yearly event is a great networking opportunity with Independent Restaurant Owners, QSR and Quick Serve Establishment Operators, Caterers, Bakers, Chefs, and other from ...
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Visit as at the Atlanta Poultry Show!
01.07.2012
Come visit us at the Atlanta Poultry Show January 23rd - 27th. The Expo has been held in Atlanta, Ga., for the past 63 years.

This show is the world's largest display of technology, equipment, supplies and services used in the production and processing of poultry and eggs and for those involved in feed manufacturing....
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Bygone Long Island
07.28.2008
(excerpt) "From the 1920s through the 1950s, we were the American duck business," said Doug Corwin, whose family owns Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue. Crescent is the last duck farm in Riverhead, where there once were dozens.

Through the 1950s, there were more than 70 duck farms on creeks and ponds throughout Brookhaven and the five East End towns. Today, according to Suffolk County official...
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A Duck Farm Turns Dross Into Gold
07.04.2004
(excerpt) THE Crescent Duck Farm, the last duck farm left on the North Fork, has about 140,000 ducks at any given time. They range from day-old ducklings covered in pristine yellow fuzz to 6-week-old white-feathered ducks that are just about ready for slaughter.

Crescent is the island's largest duck farm, a huge operation in Aquebogue that produces nearly a million white Pekin ducks, or roug...
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Where Did The Ducks Go
06.13.2002
"Not a single trace of the Long Island duckling, long a star of the white tablecloth set like the Maine lobster or the Kansas City steak, can be found on a South Fork farm today. The last duck farm here, which raised 65,000 a year south of the highway in Water Mill, became the Mecox Landing Condominiums in the 1980s.

Long Island duck can still be enjoyed at restaurants on the South Fork and ...
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North Fork Duck Farmer Holds His Ground
12.06.1998
By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER

SURVIVING as a duck farmer in the suburbs isn't easy....
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Long Island Duck Farms Fly The Coop
08.11.1986
CHARLES HILLINGER | LA Times Staff Writer EASTPORT, N.Y.

(excerpt.) The two Long Island duck producers--Crescent Duck and South Shore Duckling--who do not belong to the cooperative reported record sales last year of nearly $4 million each. They breed, process and market their own ducks and insist that they have no plans to sell out to developers....
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