In the Mountville area of Laurens County, 57 chicken houses surround the land where Blackmon grew up, the result of an explosion of poultry farming, he and members of his community group say.

Through a tangle of trees separating his land from a neighbor’s, Charles Blackmon stared glumly at the cluster of chicken barns where mountains of putrid waste are generated every year. It’s a scene ...

Through a tangle of trees separating his land from a neighbor’s, Charles Blackmon stared glumly at the cluster of chicken barns where mountains of putrid waste are generated every year. It’s a scene ...