We also eliminated greenhouses, bridges, hog barns and other ... and plotted 4,679 poultry farms in 79 North Carolina counties. That opened the door to analysis. The map allowed reporters to ...

For many years, hog farming was North Carolina’s ... The smallest farms raise about 20,000 chickens at a time. The largest: more than 1.5 million. This map, built from two datasets and verified ...