An open-pit lagoon is filled with waste from a hog farm in Duplin County, North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of The Smell of Money René Miller rests in a recliner in a darkened room, gasping through a ...

Living near a poultry farm in North Carolina can reduce a home’s value by up to 30%, according to a Duke University study. That finding comes as the number of birds North Carolina poultry farms raise ...

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 ...

Although there have always been hog farmers in North Carolina, the industry was fairly small until the mid-1980s. At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Industrial hog farms will have to follow new state guidelines issued Friday that are intended to better protect water from pollutants and neighbors from blowing pig waste. The new guidelines also ...