Donnie Riggs knows the direction pork prices will go if hogs disappear from North Carolina farms.
“They’ll go up. It’s a simple case of supply and demand,” Riggs said while standing outside his family’s pork market surrounded by more than 100 acres of crops and a couple of hog houses raising 2,500 swine off Belgrade-Swansboro Road in Maysville.
The 64-year-old farmer is a “one-man show” when it comes to laboring in the field but has help inside the pork market from Kay Gray, a retired Onslow County school teacher with a family heritage steeped in Eastern North Carolina agriculture.
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