Source: Sara Brown, AGWEB, 9/10/18


Category 4 Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall on the East Coast late Thursday or early Friday, and pig farmers are rushing to get ready. Brad Rippey, USDA meteorologist, says the storm could do the kind of damage to the mid-Atlantic region that Hurricane Harvey did to eastern Texas last year. That puts the majority of North Carolina’s hog farmers right in the path of the storm.

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