by Jen Kendrick | Jan 30, 2020 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News, Pork Industry News
Statement from the NC Pork Council on the appeals to be heard in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 31, 2020: All of agriculture in North Carolina is rightly alarmed by what transpired in the unfair trials brought against our farms. Make no mistake: These cases...
by Jen Kendrick | Dec 16, 2019 | NCPC News, Pork Industry News
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s hog and pork processing industry continues to be an economic powerhouse, generating more than $10 billion in economic output for the state, according to a new economic impact report prepared by NC State University. The report shows that the...
by Jen Kendrick | Sep 30, 2019 | NCPC News, Pork Industry News
Twenty-eight of the top whole hog barbecue cooks filled South Street in downtown Raleigh this weekend to compete for more than $7,000 in cash prizes and hope to be crowned the 2019 Whole Hog Barbecue State Champion. The cooks qualified to compete in the championship...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 9, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
UPDATE: Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at 4:30 p.m. Surveying by regulators and the North Carolina pork industry continues to indicate that impacts to or from pig farms in North Carolina from Hurricane Dorian has been limited. There are no reports of a breach, structural...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 6, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
UPDATE: 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019 North Carolina hog farms did not have significant impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall today in North Carolina. Farm anaerobic treatment lagoons, which are used to manage manure in protection of the...
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...
