Update (9/19/2018): North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality reports that, as of noon on Sept. 19, 2018, five hog-manure lagoons had incurred structural damage from flooding, 21 are ...

For hog farmers, the shift away from ... Photo: Kevin Pieper/Associated Press. ... When he added a hog barn in 2009 that housed pregnant sows in group pens instead of individual stalls, ...