For years, neighbors of some North Carolina hog farms have complained about the nauseating stench of hog waste that they say blankets the air around them. This week, they’ll begin making that case to ...

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production. Most are raised on an industrial scale, in what are known as "concentrated ...

Feral hogs are a menace to farmers across the US, causing at least $2.5 billion in damage annually. There’s only one way to stop the damage: eradication — a difficult but doable option that's hampered ...

As soon as the skies clear after a hurricane hits eastern North Carolina, Larry Baldwin climbs in the passenger seat of a single-engine plane, usually with his friend and pilot Rick Dove, and surveys ...

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Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, ...

Environmentalists cry foul, saying the bill is an effort to "lock in" the system of storing hog waste in ponds and spraying liquid watse on nearby fields. The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to ...

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