Commercial Poultry Farming News
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Voergroep Zuid next leading Dutch player to choose Porphyrio
Voergroep Zuid, business with common sense. Voergroep Zuid, a Dutch farmer cooperative and the n° 4 in animal feed production in The Netherlands, has chosen Lay-Insight of Porphyrio to further optimize their internal processes and communication with their commercial layer customers.“The main focus will be on providing our representatives the right tools and info to advise pro-actively ...
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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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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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Bird flu confirmed in commercially-farmed birds in the Netherlands
On the night of Friday 25 November 2016, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) confirmed an outbreak of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) on a duck farm in Biddinghuizen (municipality of Dronten). The birds on this farm, at three other locations belonging to the same concern in Hierden and one location in Ermelo, were humanely destroyed as a preventive measure. Some 180,000 ducks were culled. ...
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BioLargo’s commercialization partner receives EPA approval
BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB: BLGO) announced today that its licensee, Clarion Water, had received approval from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its aqueous iodine product, IoMax™, for sanitation of poultry drinking water. IoMax™ is supplied through the patented iSAN™ delivery system that accurately doses aqueous iodine into water systems. The iSAN system is ...
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Bird flu takes biggest toll yet as virus hits chicken farms
Poultry producers and scientists have been hoping warmer weather would knock down a virulent strain of bird flu that has hammered the Midwest, but the virus recently took its biggest toll yet, hitting a farm in Iowa that held nearly 10 percent of the state's egg-laying chickens. Here are some questions and answers about the outbreak: WHAT'S THE LATEST? The U.S. Department of Agriculture said ...
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New bird flu strain has poultry farmers scrambling
Animal health experts and poultry growers are scrambling to determine how a dangerous new strain of bird flu infected poultry flocks in four states - and to stop it from spreading. Avian influenza is common in wild migratory waterfowl but doesn't usually harm them. But the H5N2 strain is deadly when it spreads to commercial poultry. It can wipe out a flock of tens of thousands of birds in a few ...
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