The North Carolina Outstanding Pork Producer of the Year award recognizes a pork producer or family who has made significant contributions to the pork industry in North Carolina.
Joey Carter of Duplin County embodies and exemplifies what we mean when …
The North Carolina Pork Council’s Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed by the organization, one reserved for outstanding …
RALEIGH – Six North Carolina hog farmers – and one allied company – were honored at an awards luncheon on Thursday, Mar. 21, at the annual N.C. Pork Conference.
Jim Stocker of Kenansville was inducted into the N.C. Pork Council …
We are again disappointed that honorable North Carolina pig farmers like Joey Carter, who lawfully operate in a highly regulated industry, can be deemed a nuisance. We are equally concerned about the long-term impact that …
The National Pork Board honored Dr. William “Billy” Flowers with its Distinguished Service Award during the National Pork Industry Forum in Orlando. Flowers is an animal science professor at North Carolina State University.
Each year the award is presented at …
Recipients recognized as leaders of the next generation of American pig farmers
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – The National Pork Board announced today that Bailee Arnold from North Carolina, Ben Luebbering from Missouri and Ben Wikner from Iowa …
A judgment stemming from a $50 million verdict must be overturned, farm groups told a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., yesterday.
Earlier last year, juries in three separate trials in Raleigh, N.C., awarded punitive damages of more than $500 …
We have been concerned, from the very beginning, about the way these cases were tried and the threat they pose to our industry. It is gratifying to have a judge rule, as a matter of …
Having the advanced notice of pending hurricanes is a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, …
In a sweeping ruling, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., overturned the gag rule issued by Judge Earl Britt just before the verdict in the second trial this summer. The gag order …