Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 12/4/17

Trials that could alter the operations and profitability of eastern North Carolina’s pork industry will start in April, a federal judge decided Monday. U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt said trials on the lawsuits filed by more than 500 neighbors of industrial-scale hog operations will begin with two test cases.The litigation by often-poor neighbors represents one of the biggest legal and financial threats to pork producers since industrial-scale hog farming took off a generation ago.

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