Nutrient Management
Almost all commercial-scale poultry operations in Mississippi are required by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to have an environmental operating permit that includes a Nutrient Management Plan (NMP). Nutrient management concerns the amount, source, placement, form, and...
Alain Riggi, Global Poultry Manager explains how his projects at Phileo by Lesaffre are in the continuity of the Act with Nature campaign.
“The projects I am working on at Phileo are based on the development of natural products,...
Imagine this: you feel really motivated to do something, sit down let's say. You have this overwhelming urge to do it. It's necessary, you need to do it. But there's no place to sit nearby. You try anyways, you...
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Principal Investigator:
Erika Machtinger, PhD, CWB®
Assistant Professor of Veterinary Entomology
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Entomology
4 Chemical Ecology Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
Control of house flies (Musca domestica) poses a significant challenge to poultry producers, especially those involved in managing...
After some delays for technical reasons, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) formally published its regulation requiring Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans in egg product plants. The final regulation was announced September 9, but...
New research has suggested that Salmonella levels in no-antibiotics-ever (NAE) poultry systems could be lower than those on conventional broiler farms.
Estefania Novoa Rama, a graduate research assistant at the University of Georgia, told Poultry Health Today that the difference...
Mississippi is one of the top poultry-producing areas in the United States. In fact, the state ranks fifth in the nation in broiler production and is headquarters to the nation’s largest table egg company. Just under 2,000 poultry growers...
Stage 1 – First Three Weeks in March 2020: Sharp Increase in Volumes
Canada started to implement social distancing at the national level from mid-March 2020. In the first week’s lockdown from March 15th, 2020 to March 21st, 2020, the...
Last month, premium poultry producer Bell & Evans announced its construction of a new $330 million Organic-Certified Chicken Harvesting Facility in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania. Only three years ago, Bell & Evans opened its world’s first, $40 million, Organic Certified, Animal-Welfare-Focused...
Egg sanitation plays an important role in optimizing quality and overall hatchability. Watch this video to learn how to test sanitation levels in a machine, prepare eggs for sanitation, and more. This video uses a water-based machine with chlorine...