As Barbara Dozhier prepared a ham before the arrival of her great-grandchildren and the rest of her family last Christmas Eve, she prayed for a weather forecast with wind out of the south. A breeze in ...

A year ago, the owner of an excavation company proposed building the largest factory chicken farm in the state on a rural farm between Scio and Mill City on the banks of Thomas Creek. Jason Peters ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...