The purpose of the North Carolina Pork Council Emerging Leader Award is to recognize and honor a pork producer aged 40 or younger who has contributed …
Emerging Leaders Award: Justin and Erica Edwards
Category: Beyond Bacon
Beyond Bacon is our blog where we will keep you informed on what’s happening in the NC pork industry.
W.W. Shay Award for Industry Distinction: Dexter Edwards
The North Carolina Pork Council’s W.W. Shay Award for Industry Distinction recognizes and honors an individual who has exhibited outstanding service to the pork industry as an employee of a pork industry company.
This award is named for William Warden …
Award for Excellence in Innovation: Hog Slat, Inc.
The Award for Excellence in Innovation was created to honor and recognize individuals or institutions for progress in the pork industry through innovative techniques, applications and/or action that include but are not limited to environmental stewardship, sustainability, research, science, and …
Outstanding Pork Producer of the Year: Joey Carter
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 …
Livestock Hall of Fame: James Stocker
The North Carolina Pork Council’s Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed by the organization, one reserved for outstanding …
Statement on fifth trial verdict
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 …
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 …
Farm groups demand justice for NC hog farmers
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 …
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 …
Statement – Sholar Farms verdict
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 …