Terrence O'KeefeTerrence O'Keefe is content director at WATT Global Media. www.wattglobalmedia.com/contact-usFrom the Author - Page 31Broilers & TurkeysUEP working on long-term plan for US layer industryWith the implementation date for California’s Proposition 2 less than nine months away and with several legal challenges already filed or on the way, Chad Gregory, president, United Egg Producers (UEP), said, “Even Hollywood couldn’t create this kind of drama.”Addressing the audience at the Egg Industry Center’s Issues Forum in Indianapolis, he said the UEP board had met over the last two days to try and devise a strategy for the future of the U.S. layer industry.Processing & SlaughterAdvocates say US meat, poultry workers denied basic human rightsEvery time I think that activist nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have stooped as low as they possibly could, another one manages to lower the limbo bar another notch and slide beneath it. The latest affront to rational thought was conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest when they asked for help for U.S. poultry and meat packing plant workers from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).Egg ProductionWhat is the next step for shell egg safety?Implementation of the U.S. Food and Drug Adminsitration's (FDA) regulations for prevention of Salmonella enteritidis contamination of shell eggs by egg producers with more than 3,000 hens, the Egg Safety Final Rule, was a step forward for the U.S. egg industry as a whole. While many egg producers already were complying with many aspects of the Egg Safety Final Rule either voluntarily or through state programs, some had not been, and it is expected that the already low rate of eggs contaminated internally with Salmonella enteritidis was reduced further.HomeEconomist forecasts record chicken, turkey prices in 2014At the Grain and Meat Outlook webinar, experts said that beef,pork, chicken and turkey prices all are expected set record highs in 2014.Broilers & TurkeysPoultry industry needs to be transparent and join conversation“Consumers don’t necessarily want to know how their food is made until they have a reason to doubt us, but once doubt creeps in, you have lost trust, said Alan Sterling, director of marketing, Wayne Farms. “We have lost some of consumer’s trust because we chose to back off or stay away from difficult to discuss topics.”Processing & SlaughterCDC says Foster Farms’ Salmonella outbreak continuesThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that as of April 7, 524 people infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 25 states and Puerto Rico, since March 1, 2013. This new total is 43 illnesses higher than what was reported through February 28.Broilers & TurkeysHigher phytase doses provide better phosphorous utilization in broiler dietsCalcium and phosphorous are components of hydroxyapatite, which is the primary structural mineral in bone. Cartilage forms the organic matrix of bone which is later mineralized with hydroxyapatite. Dr. Douglas R. Korver, professor, University of Alberta, said that broilers have immature bones at today’s market ages of six weeks or less. Speaking at the WATTAgnet.com webinar, Optimizing calcium/phosphorous contribution and skeletal integrity through phytase use in broiler diets, Korver said that recent genetic improvements have resulted in faster growing strains that don’t have as many of the metabolic and structural issues as broilers had in the 1990s. But, this doesn’t mean that today’s broilers can’t have skeletal issues.Egg ProductionMake biosecurity part of your cultureThereare a bunch of biosecurity programs in the U.S. swine industry that looked verygood on paper, but when challenged by porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus, theyhaven’t been able to stop its spread. A biosecurity plan may call for the entranceof each barn to have a boot dip pan, for the farm to be shower-in, or for thereto be a fence to exclude vehicles, but it takes people following procedures everytime, every day, to make it work.Processing & SlaughterVirginia poultry growers seize the organic opportunityTwo longtime friends and business partners, Corwin Heatwole and Wayne Billhimer, are betting that demand for organic chicken will give their fledgling grow-out and processing operations -- Shenandoah Processing LLC -- in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia a chance to grow and succeed.Egg ProcessingNutriom responds to USDA, announces second recallNutriom LLC, a dehydrated egg products producer in Lacey, Wash., issued a statement in response to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) public health alert issued regarding the company's products. In the alert, FSIS said Nutriom had not agreed to an agency request to expand its February 15 recall of dehydrated egg products.Egg ProcessingUSDA issues public health alert for Nutriom processed egg productsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert because Nutriom LLC declined to expand its egg product recall. The USDA said the company has not consented to the USDA's request that it recall an additional 118,541 pounds of processed egg products.Broilers & TurkeysExpansión a producción sin jaulas: impacto positivo para el negocio del huevoHasta hace aproximadamente cinco años, todas las gallinas de Midwest Poultry Services se alojaban en jaulas convencionales. Pero ahora tienen gallinas sin jaulas, en aviarios. Todas las casetas sin jaulas están a un lado de la planta procesadora de huevo. Esta distribución permite procesar los huevos por separado. Revisemos la experiencia de esta empresa.Previous PagePage 31 of 59Next Page