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Profitable Practices: Poultry innovation improves bird health and reduces costs

Real Agriculture

Scott Buchan sees the impact of technology whenever hes watching his broiler chickens or looking at his hydro bills. For Buchan, who operates Buchrest Farms along with his family in Ontarios Waterloo Region, investing in technology and innovation plays a key role in making the operation more profitable and sustainable.

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Green tech company looking to help clean up River Wye catchment

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly A green technology company has set out its plans to build a number of “hubs” in the Wye Valley, aiming to convert the area’s considerable supply of poultry litter into biochar – a slow release fertiliser.

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What do we need to know about bird flu?

Food Politics

The CDC says: “Mammals can be infected with H5N1 bird flu viruses when they eat infected birds, poultry, or other animals and/or if they are exposed to environments contaminated with virus. Although there have only been 4 reported cases in humans since 2022, the strain has infected: Nearly 100 million chickens have been affected.

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An Opportunity to Reduce Water Pollution from Slaughterhouses

The Equation

Industrial meat and poultry slaughterhouses dump millions of pounds of pollutants into the nation’s waters every year. The EPA identified the meat and poultry industry as the source of “the highest phosphorus levels and second highest nitrogen levels of all industrial categories.”

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Rats With Wings, Vaccines, And New Breed—2024’s Solutions to the Bird Flu Crisis

Modern Farmer

Bird flu has held the world’s poultry industry in its unrelenting clutches before, causing catastrophic losses of more than 50 million birds in 2015. Obviously, the poultry industry’s showing no signs of restructuring to push pigeon quesadillas or pigeon tenders as your weeknight dinner. We don’t have all the answers to bird flu yet.

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Throw Some Shade: Protecting Livestock from Heat Stress

ATTRA

Photo: Lee Rinehart, NCAT And we can’t forget poultry! Heat stress for chickens, turkeys, and other poultry species can cause major productivity setbacks. ATTRA has a wide range of resources on providing proper housing for poultry, including the publication Pastured Poultry: Egg Production. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Letter requesting an update to the Standard of Identity for yogurt

NASDA

inspection, and regulation of raw and processed food (including meat, poultry, and seafood) and food production, processing and marketing methods and technologies to ensure human safety and nutrition. NASDA works on a wide variety of issues related to labeling., We appreciate your time and consideration on this important matter.