The news has been filled lately with more stories about the growing divide between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. While larger cities are experiencing a wave of growth, many rural communities are struggling with declining populations and the continued …
Author: Andy Curliss
Latest attack by N&O is false, harmful
The News & Observer published a story on the front page of the Sunday paper, written by a freelance writer and directly funded by a policy advocacy organization, that is factually incorrect and dishonest.
The story is inaccurate on three …
Reports from NC DEQ to General Assembly on animal operations
Here are reports from the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to the General Assembly about animal operations for the past decade.
These document 24,551 inspections on permitted farms in the time period covered.
Additionally, these document complaints that inspectors acted …
Background on the Open Philanthropy Project
There is an entity called the Open Philanthropy Project that is funded largely from the personal fortune of billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna.
Moskovitz is a co-founder of Facebook.
One focus area of the Open Philanthropy Project …
Surveys, reports continue to show limited impacts from Hurricane Dorian
UPDATE: Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at 4:30 p.m.
Surveying by regulators and the North Carolina pork industry continues to indicate that impacts to or from pig farms in North Carolina from Hurricane Dorian has been limited.
There are no reports …
N.C. Pork Council: Limited farm impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian
UPDATE: 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
North Carolina hog farms did not have significant impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall today in North Carolina.
Farm anaerobic treatment lagoons, which are used to manage manure in protection of …
N.C. Pork Council: No significant farm impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian
UPDATE: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
There are no reports of significant impacts to North Carolina’s pork industry, which includes more than 2,000 farms, as a result of severe Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall in North Carolina this morning.…
Vitriol from trial lawyers is – absolutely – an attack on a blessed farm
In the closing moments of the nuisance trial this week, the Texas lawyer tried to persuade the jury that his ongoing attack in the courtroom, while seeking piles of money, isn’t about modern agriculture. That it’s not about pining …
Trial lawyer asks jury to award tens of millions of dollars at close of latest case
It is difficult to find the right words to describe what was happening Tuesday as the Texas lawyer stood before a jury in Raleigh at the close of the fifth nuisance hog farm trial and pleaded for tens of millions …
Far from our farms, courtroom argument is detached from reality
This past week, as in previous nuisance trials, there was a moment when the Texas lawyer stood before the jury and attempted with all his might to ignite in them the passions of ancient division: To make these cases about …