For many years, hog farming was North Carolina’s best-known industrial-scale agricultural sector. The state imposed a moratorium on new swine farms in 1997 following concerns about the ...

Smithfield Foods is heavily invested in North Carolina. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Smithfield Foods targets IPO with valuation near $11 billion. The IPO could raise nearly $940 million for Smithfield.

Smithfield Foods is heavily invested in North Carolina. A major employer in eastern North Carolina is targeting an initial public offering with a valuation approaching $11 billion. Farmers in the ...

North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere ... With the presence of hog farms and municipal treatment plants, that doesn’t make an airtight case that the origin was poultry manure.

It has 250,000 wean-to-finish and finish spaces on farms across North Carolina. Smithfield will supply feed, transportation and other hog production services as part of the agreement. The deal is ...

Anaerobic digesters like this one in Duplin County are a common method of harvesting biogas on North Carolina farms. Lagoons containing hog waste are covered with a thick black tarp that balloons ...