Source: BLUERIDGE NOW, 6/14/20


 
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Eastern North Carolina hog farms and processing facilities particularly hard, and many in the hog business are resorting to euthanizing the animals as their demand chains filled by restaurants and school systems have dried up due to statewide closures. “I’ve been in agriculture all my life — 35 years with this group — and I’ve never been asked how to kill and bury hundreds of thousands of hogs until now,” said Bill Yarborough, agricultural programs administrator for the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture.

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