by Bra5c0 | Sep 6, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
UPDATE: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019 There are no reports of significant impacts to North Carolina’s pork industry, which includes more than 2,000 farms, as a result of severe Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall in North Carolina this morning. Surveying by the...
by Jen Kendrick | Sep 3, 2019 | Beyond Bacon
An Associated Press article published in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian begins like this: “The names of hurricanes may change, but one thing seems to stay the same: Misinformation spreads quickly…” We cannot agree more. The pork industry in North Carolina...
by Jen Kendrick | Sep 1, 2019 | Beyond Bacon
With Hurricane Dorian approaching the East Coast, the North Carolina Pork Council is sharing the following information adapted from a recent article published in The Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law at Florida State University (Volume 34, No. 2). In...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The Lois G. Britt Service Award is named for a dynamic leader who devoted her life to agriculture, education, and service to the people, organizations and institutions in which she believed. There were many. After Lois’s untimely death in 2005, the North Carolina Pork...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The purpose of the North Carolina Pork Council Emerging Leader Award is to recognize and honor a pork producer aged 40 or younger who has contributed to the pork industry in North Carolina and exhibits potential for leadership. In previous years, this award was known...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 19, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
The North Carolina Pork Council’s W.W. Shay Award for Industry Distinction recognizes and honors an individual who has exhibited outstanding service to the pork industry as an employee of a pork industry company. This award is named for William Warden Shay who, as the...
