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USSEC Helps Transition Egypt’s Poultry Producers to Use Soybean Meal as Main Protein in Feed Formulations
With the support of FAS’s Cairo office, USSEC has worked with poultry producers in the Middle East region for several years, focusing on the economic benefits of using high quality U.S. soybean products. Soybean meal is becoming the major source of high-quality protein used in poultry feed, replacing protein sources from animal origins. Using U.S. soybean meal, poultry producers are ...
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Positive Results for Soybean Meal from the Afghan Poultry Feeding Trials
The American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (ASA/WISHH) program’s Soybeans for Agricultural Renewal in Afghanistan Initiative (SARAI) project is a soybean value-chain from production to consumption. An important and growing customer in the soy value chain is the Afghan poultry industry, which is going through a rapid growth stage. SARAI is funded by ...
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Carbon Footprint and Assessment Tool Developed for Poultry Producers
USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation announce the completion of a funded research project at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., in which researchers developed a carbon footprint and assessment tool for poultry producers. The project is part of the Association’s comprehensive research program encompassing all phases of poultry and egg production and processing. A brief summary of the ...
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Employee Engagement an Important Part of Product Traceability at Jones-Hamilton Co.
Product traceability plays an important role at Jones-Hamilton Co. While some companies may just pay lip service to the endeavor, we make sure every employee understands its importance and how their specific job contributes to the traceability of sodium bisulfate in all the various industries and applications it is used. For employees in our Richburg, SC, plant, who focus solely on the ...
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New space for future growth at Evonik Porphyrio
Evonik Porphyrio moves to a new office in Leuven, Belgium. In the center of university city Leuven, just 15 minutes away from vibrant Brussels, the new working space reflects the growth ambitions of the company. Evonik Porphyrio provides software solutions based on big data, biostatistics and self-learning algorithms to improve and optimize poultry production. Evonik Porphyrio has moved its ...
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The Livestock Event 2014: new dedicated pig and poultry feature
The Livestock Event, the UK’s leading livestock trade show is launching a new dedicated feature for pig and poultry producers at the 2014 event, to be held at The NEC, Birmingham on 2 and 3 July. Specialist advice on feeding, health, equipment and housing will be featured in a new Pig and Poultry Feature in the Feeds and Forage Zone making it easy for visitors to locate within the main ...
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EU rule changes threaten poultry and horticulture sectors
Small traditional poultry producers and growers who use glasshouses could find their businesses under threat from EU rules lumping their businesses into the same pollution control bracket as power stations, the NFU warned today. The new proposed revisions to the IPPC include:• Reducing the current IPPC thresholds from 40,000 to 30,000 for laying hens, 24,000 for ducks and 11,500 for turkeys. ...
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Bird flu found in a top Minnesota turkey producing county
An outbreak of a deadly bird flu strain spread to one of the top poultry producing counties of the nation's top turkey producing state of Minnesota, government officials confirmed on Saturday, raising fears that the that the highly contagious disease could seriously damage the industry. The highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of avian influenza has infected a third turkey farm in the state, this time ...
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Chilson?s customer spirit kept alive with Aeros Scoreboard
Aeros, a Cultura Company moves forward with the inspiration of the late and great Dick Chilson. He was a man known through the Egg and Poultry industries for his charisma and customer-centric values. Having gone through a series of corporate changes, Aeros keeps the innovative spirit of Chilson’s Management Controls alive with the release of its latest software solution: Aeros SCOREBOARD. ...
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Challenges in China Don’t Deter U.S. Soybean Export Demand
Defaults, defers and delays on as much as two million metric tons of soy shipments to China have U.S. soybean farmers questioning whether the No. 1 importer of U.S. soy will continue to be a reliable market moving forward. But the head of the soy checkoff’s international marketing partner says the market is safe for now. Delayed shipments out of South America in the spring of 2013 likely ...
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New Process Converts Poultry Litter into Bio-oil
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, August 29, 2007 (ENS) - Each year in the United States the poultry industry produces more than 5.6 million tons of litter - a mixture of bedding, manure, feathers, and spilled feed. Now, a team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech is developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert poultry litter into bio-oil that can be ...
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Avian Flu Testing of Wild Ducks Informs Biosecurity and Can Reduce Economic Loss
Understanding the genetic origins of avian influenza outbreaks through enhanced wild bird surveillance sampling can provide early warning to poultry producers, and lead to improved biosecurity measures that can reduce economic losses in future outbreaks. To understand the origins of the novel strain of H7N8 avian influenza that caused the Indiana outbreak in January 2016, and possible role of ...
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Building Demand for U.S. Soybeans through Value-Added Poultry and Egg Exports in Mexico
A project funded by the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) is helping to encourage Mexican meat processors to diversify their ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meal offerings to include more U.S. poultry as a main ingredient. ISA – the state soy checkoff program in Indiana – is working with the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) to promote expanded use of poultry in ...
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Harper Government Strengthens Canadian Poultry Research
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today announced an investment of $4 million to the Canadian Poultry Research Council (CPRC) to further strengthen the poultry industry’s role within the Canadian agri-food sector. The research will focus on helping the poultry processing industry remain competitive, while addressing consumer concerns about poultry welfare and environmental preservation. This ...
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USDA: Bird flu vaccine works on chickens; testing on turkeys
Scientists have developed a vaccine strain that has tested 100 percent effective in protecting chickens from bird flu and testing is underway to see if it also protects turkeys, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the House Agriculture Committee at a hearing on Wednesday. If it does, the agency plans to quickly license it for widespread production and is seeking funding from the Office ...
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SmartPro NF is chosen by Wayne Farms for US hatchery renovation project
Wayne Farms LLC, one of the top-six poultry producers in the United States, has chosen SmartPro NF incubators from NatureForm and Pas Reform for its hatchery upgrade project in Decatur, north Alabama. With its headquarters in Oakwood, Georgia, Wayne Farms is also amongst the world’s 10 largest producers. Established in 1965, the company has evolved significantly from its origins as a spin ...
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Erpiliç installs advanced turkey hatchery to meet growing demand
Leading Turkish poultry producer Erpiliç is investing in a new, state-of-the-art turkey hatchery from Pas Reform, to meet growing demand for turkey meat. Based in the north-western city of Bolu, the poultry capital of Turkey, Erpiliç is already one of the country’s three largest integrated poultry breeders. Its vertically integrated operation includes a feed factory, ...
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Biolargo Hatches plan to help poultry industry make clean farms, healthy chickens, safer food and more profit
The poultry industry is big business, but also faces big challenges. Since 1992, chicken has outpaced beef in per capita sales in the U.S., and during 2016, wholesale poultry sales were $60 billion. Despite this progress, a barrier to continued growth in this sector is pathogen control and other poultry health challenges that have demonstrated their potential to impact sales negatively. Avian ...
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Overfishing Threatens Critical Link in the Food Chain
The fish near the bottom of the aquatic food chain are often overlooked, but they are vital to healthy oceans and estuaries. Collectively known as forage fish, these species—including sardines, anchovies, herrings, and shrimp-like crustaceans called krill—feed on plankton and become food themselves for larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals. Historically, people have eaten ...
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U.S. Soybean Farmers Witness Direct Impact of Soy Checkoff’s Efforts
Ten U.S. soybean farmers participated in the United Soybean Board’s (USB’s) 2014 See for Yourself program to learn about their customers beyond the elevator and the soy checkoff’s role in marketing U.S. soy to those customers. This year, the farmers visited St. Louis, Panama and Ecuador, from Aug. 14-22. A total of 70 farmers have taken advantage of this unique opportunity over ...
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