Capitol Broadcasting Co. and WRAL published multiple falsehoods this week about our industry in an editorial critique of this year’s legislative session, relying on inaccurate opinions of a Duke University professor.
WRAL asserted that North Carolina lawmakers have taken action …
A handful of mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, have in recent days swallowed what a few fringe groups are peddling in their latest attempts to malign the meat industry.
This time, it has to do with exports. …
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Pork Council Board of Directors has unanimously voted to substantially increase scholarship funding for 2020 in an effort to reduce financial impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on students at North Carolina colleges and universities.…
NC Department of Health and Human Services’ Sec. Mandy Cohen
May 7, 2020 briefing
17:00 – 20:13
“The food processing plants in our state are critical to our keeping up our food supply not only here in North Carolina …
They weren’t cooking whole hogs and there wasn’t a judge in sight, but in mid-April, cooks from the North Carolina Pork Council’s Whole Hog Barbecue Series showed up to provide close to 5,000 servings of barbecue to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s…
Whether you’re eating bacon in the morning or pork chops at dinner, you can rest assured that your pork products are home grown.
North Carolina is one of the nation’s top pork producers and most of that meat stays right …
The federal government has issued formal guidance to the nation about the “essential critical infrastructure workforce” and the “special responsibility” to maintain continuity amid a national effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
It should be no surprise that farmers …
Deborah Johnson of Clinton was inducted into the North Carolina Pork Council Hall of Fame. She has represented the North Carolina pork industry on the local, state and national levels. And she has done so with tenacity, loyalty, grace and …
Chad Herring is a third-generation pig farmer who manages the family pig farm in Mount Olive.
Not only does Chad nurture the newly weaned pigs that come to his nursery, he has begun to nurture relationships with consumers as well. …