Hogs and Water Quality: Review Fails to Find Any Hog Impact
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This extensive review of state-collected water quality data from North Carolina, conducted [...]
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This extensive review of state-collected water quality data from North Carolina, conducted [...]
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The data discussed in this report indicate that nutrient levels in the Black and Northeast Cape Fear watersheds are elevated above levels expected prior to farming and livestock. However, these data also indicate that the impacts from intensive confinement hog farms (and the rapid expansion of the hog population during the 1980s and 1990s) [...]
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Evidence from America’s most intensive hog producing region indicate that large hog operations do not hurt water quality.