RALEIGH — North Carolina’s hog and pork processing industry continues to be an economic powerhouse, generating more than $10 billion in economic output for the state, according to a new economic impact report prepared by NC State University.
The report …
It was an invitation to a livestock show that turned the McNealys into a pig family. Watching her friend parade around a show ring with …
Twenty-eight of the top whole hog barbecue cooks filled South Street in downtown …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
UPDATE: 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
North Carolina hog farms did not have …
UPDATE: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
There are no …
An Associated Press article published in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian begins like this: “The names of hurricanes may change, but one thing seems to stay the same: Misinformation spreads quickly…”
We cannot agree more. The pork industry …