Charlotte Observer2y
With little oversight, NC poultry farms raise 1 billion birds a year. Who pays the cost?
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 ...
Americans Don’t Eat Enough Bacon. The Pork King Has a Plan.
Smithfield CEO Shane Smith took the country’s largest pork producer public in the U.S. this week. Now he faces the big ...
The Business Journals12d
One of North Carolina's largest employers eyes $10.7 billion valuation in IPO
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.
Charlotte Observer2y
North Carolina keeps poultry farm locations secret. We mapped them anyway.
hog barns and other structures that Stanford’s computers mistakenly labeled as poultry barns. Ultimately the newspapers counted and plotted 4,679 poultry farms in 79 North Carolina counties.
Second bird flu outbreak detected in NC as egg prices approach record highs
According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, a commercial turkey operation in Sampson County has tested ...
AR lawmakers file bill that may end ban on industrial hog farms in Buffalo River watershed
Arkansas lawmakers have filed a bill that would prohibit moratoriums on the issuance of permits in watersheds and other bodies of water that opponents say is an ...
Raleigh News & Observer20d
A Sampson County hog waste-to-energy project could benefit from Helene relief bill
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 ...