While Hurricane Michael has been in the news most recently, agricultural producers in southeastern North Carolina are still recovering from the impacts of Hurricane Florence’s heavy rainfall, which caused a lot of damage in that part of the Southeast. Farm Bureau’s Pork Business published a story recently describing some of the things that pork producers did during Florence to help minimize the damage to their farms and herds. As a result, according to the North Carolina Pork Council, the impact on hog farms ($661,100) was a relatively limited component of the more than $1.1 billion in damage and losses to the agricultural community. You can read more here.
