Hog Farming and Lagoon Management

in North Carolina

A collaborative project of

WUNC - The State of Things

and

The first-year students enrolled in

"The Economics of North Carolina"

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Table of Contents

• The Environmental Perspective (written by Erin Hosterman)
• Economic Feasibility of New Waste Management Systems (written by Natalie Ernst)
• The Farmers' Perspective (written by Bret Ulloa)
• The Government's Perspective on Regulation (written by Alex Bloom)
• The Perspective of Neighbors to the Hog Farms (written by Caroline Gentry)
• The Perspective of Consumers and Businesses Downstream (written by Caroline Owen)