For many years, hog farming was North Carolina’s ... 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 ...

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 ...

he did excellent work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms that were fouling creeks and rivers, and we talked about making a visit together to North Carolina to document the ...

Before the listing, the company carved out its European business, ended contracts with some U.S. hog farms and shut a ... and another in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2023. It also stopped ...

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have ... That allowed the researchers to map ammonia levels across entire regions of North Carolina and across an extended period of time.

"You cannot survive as a family farm only farming," said Catherine Topel, 56, a North Carolina hog producer who hosts an Airbnb cabin and campsites through HipCamp. "The cabins, the camping – it ...

"You cannot survive as a family farm only farming," said Catherine Topel, 56, a North Carolina hog producer who hosts an Airbnb cabin and campsites through HipCamp. "The cabins, the camping – it makes ...

“You cannot survive as a family farm only farming,” said Catherine Topel, 56, a North Carolina hog producer who hosts an Airbnb cabin and campsites through HipCamp. “The cabins, the camping — it makes ...