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 ...

Feral hogs are a menace to farmers across the U.S., 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 ...

Within months of buying his Whiteville home in 2019, Larry Sparrow discovered what it meant to live across the road from a hog farm. One particular incident signaled the struggle ahead. “I was in my ...

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 ...

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 ...

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With the full extent of the damage done by Hurricane Florence still being assessed, environmentalists and health officials are expressing concern over the pink shaded ponds on hog farms that have ...

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