Justice & Health Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains Now that hurricane season has arrived, hundreds of waste lagoons could be flooded ...

After moving to North Carolina, a Columbus County resident found himself downwind from a billion-dollar industry. Now he’s ...

Although there have always been hog farmers in North Carolina, the industry was fairly small until the mid-1980s. At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new ...

All of the top 10 hog-producing counties in North Carolina report per-person health care costs above the state average, according to an analysis of 2022 USDA figures and 2019 data compiled by the ...

Poultry farms now dot most of North Carolina. The smallest farms raise about 20,000 chickens at a time. The largest: more than 1.5 million. This map, built from two datasets and verified with ...

Several hog farms in North Carolina were properly allowed to collect energy from the animals' waste, a state appeals court said Tuesday, ruling that their permit applications were scrutinized ...

Hog production is big business in North Carolina. The state brings in $2.9 billion annually from hog sales—ranking second only to Iowa, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture. Duplin County, ...

The NC legislature on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto on a bill known as the NC Farm Act or Senate Bill 711 restricting nuisance lawsuits against hog farms.

Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of pork producer Smithfield Foods, appeals a verdict involving a Bladen County, North Carolina, hog farm. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Friday in ...

CHICAGO, July 2 (Reuters) - A swine virus deadly to piglets has been discovered on two hog farms in North Carolina, an official in the No. 2 hog-producing U.S. state said on Tuesday.

Poultry farms now dot most of North Carolina. The smallest farms raise about 20,000 chickens at a time. The largest: more than 1.5 million. This map, built from two datasets and verified with ...

Several hog farms in North Carolina were properly allowed to collect energy from the animals' waste, a state appeals court said Tuesday, ruling that their permit applications were scrutinized ...