In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these ...

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 ...

A confirmed bird flu case at a Georgia poultry farm led to the culling of more than 71,000 birds and triggered a quarantine ...

Poultry farming is not a new concept in the hamlet of Southold, where upstart poultry businesses have in the past decade won ...