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 major ownership change is coming to the Valley’s poultry industry, as California-based company Pitman Family Farms has ...

A Linn County judge has invalidated a permit for a proposed chicken farm that would have raised over three million chickens per year east of Salem. The decision, issued Tuesday, follows years of push ...

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