North Carolina offers to buy out floodplain hog farms

A month after Hurricane Florence swamped southern North Carolina with up to 40 inches of rain, state officials offered on Thursday to buy out hog farms that have a high risk of flooding in severe storms. North Carolina said that four of every five hog farms retired after the destructive Hurricane Floyd in 1999 probably… » Read More

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