Looking for the perfect calendar for 2025? The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) has what you need. NDA is featuring the winners of its annual Poultry Photo Contest in a special 2025 calendar. The calendar, which includes important biosecurity...
– Recent mycotoxin testing in Canadian silages and grains, conducted as part of the Alltech 2024 Canadian Harvest Analysis, is revealing significant regional variability in contamination levels, with corn silage showing particularly high risks.
Mycotoxins, which are natural substances produced...
Tecno Poultry Equipment, a leader in housing systems for laying hens, is set to expand its reach and support for customers as part of the newly established Grain and Protein Technologies Group. With the recent acquisition of AGCO's Grain...
In the poultry processing industry, ensuring products are free from foreign materials is essential for consumer safety and brand integrity. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) mandates stringent protocols to detect and handle foreign...
Using a boot bath before and after you visit your chickens keeps your footwear clean. More important, it enhances your biosecurity measures to ensure that your flock stays healthy. The procedure for maintaining a boot bath and sanitizer is...
Rendering professionals from around the country recently gathered in Nashville, Tenn., for USPOULTRY’s 2024 Poultry Protein & Fat Seminar. Presentations were offered on an array of topics including leadership, wastewater treatment and attracting young talent to the rendering industry.
Kenton...
Canada’s approach to trade negotiations has always been a balancing act between protecting domestic industries and opening markets for international trade. One of the most contentious issues in recent years has been the inclusion of supply-managed sectors, such as...
Egg Farmers of Canada is thrilled to recognize Subway® Canada for featuring the Egg Quality Assurance™ (EQA®) certification mark on its in-store and digital online breakfast menus in restaurants across Canada. The certification mark will also appear on the...
DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM
Nowadays, the growth and production of broilers is a crucial source of meat. Many years of genetic selection resulted in the rapid growth of modern breeds of broiler chickens in a short period. Commercial breeding programs, balanced...
Even as a kid, Adnan Alrubaye was taking care of chickens. Now, he's working to help fight a disease that causes chicken lameness, a major issue for the poultry industry.
Of the nine billion broiler chickens produced in the U.S....
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but prevention isn't always possible for certain diseases. In those cases, early disease detection in poultry is the next best thing.
The UK government said on Tuesday that cases of bird flu had been confirmed in commercial poultry at premises in Yorkshire, hours after it increased the risk level of the disease from medium to high.
All poultry on the infected...
The 2024 Feed Strategy Seminar series, held at EuroTier 2024, will provide insights into feed additive solutions for emission reductions in monogastric animal production. The 50-minute sessions will focus on practical, non-commercial, science-based approaches to improving swine and poultry’s...
Turkey has confirmed a new outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, at a commercial poultry farm, marking its first reported case in more than a year. The World Organisation for...
Two states affected by avian flu outbreaks in dairy cattle and commercial poultry reported more probable H5 avian flu infections in farm workers over the last few days, four in California and three in Washington.
In other developments, federal officials...