Charlotte Observer2y
With little oversight, NC poultry farms raise 1 billion birds a year. Who pays the cost?
The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy ... tractor-trailers stuffed with caged birds whose white feathers fall like snow on rural highways. The North Carolina General Assembly has steadily ...
North Carolina confirms avian influenza case in Hyde County commercial poultry operation
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Veterinary Diagnostic Lab in Raleigh has confirmed a ...
Meet the North Carolina Zoo’s 750-pound grizzly bear
One of the largest animals at the North Carolina Zoo got even bigger by the end of 2024. Ronan the grizzly bear now weighs ...
Charlotte Observer2y
A rigged game? Poultry farmers complain of big debt, unreliable income
North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the ... assured them they’d be able raise the birds in their spare time — and that the business ...
The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) on MSN2mon
As poultry booms in NC, large farms can reduce the value of nearby homes, study finds
That finding comes as the number of birds North Carolina poultry ... in a 2022 investigation into the secrecy cloaking North ...