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Drought grips more than half of U.S. The Associated Press

WALTONVILLE, Ill. — The nation’s widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental U.S. now in some stage of drought and most of the rest enduring abnormally dry con-ditions.

Only in the 1930s and the 1950s has a drought covered more land, according to federal figures released July 16. So far, there’s little risk of a Dust Bowl-type catastrophe, but crop losses could mount if rain doesn’t come soon.

In its monthly drought report, the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., announced that 55 percent of the country was in a moderate to extreme drought at the end of June. The parched conditions expanded last month in the West, the Great Plains and the Midwest, fueled

by the 14th warmest and 10th driest June on record, the report said.

Topsoil has turned dry while “crops, pastures and rangeland have deteriorated at a rate rarely seen in the last 18 years,” the report said.

The percentage of affected land is the largest since December 1956, when 58 percent of the country was covered by drought, and it rivals even some years in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, though experts point out that this year’s weather has been milder than that period, and farming practices have been vastly improved since then.

In southern Illinois, Kenny Brum-mer has lost 800 acres of corn that he grows to feed his 400 head of cattle and 30,000 hogs. Now he’s scram-

(AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Mike Hutmacher)

Drought effect: A field of corn withers under triple-degree heat north of Wichita, Kan., in Sedgwick County. The drought gripping the U.S. is the widest since 1956, according to new data released July 16 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Fifty-five percent of the continental U.S. was in a moderate to extreme drought by the end of June, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said in its monthly State of the Climate drought report. That’s the largest percentage since December 1956, when 58 percent of the country was covered by drought.

TPF announces its new officersKevin McDaniel is new chairman

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Poultry Federation of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, has an-nounced its board of directors and officers for the 2012-2013 year.

Serving as Chairman of the Board is Kevin McDaniel, vice president of production for O.K. Foods Inc., Fort Smith.

Vice chairman is Shane Acosta, complex general manager for Cargill Inc., Springdale.

Treasurer is Steve Storm, operations vice president for Cal-Maine Foods, Jackson, Miss.

Secretary is David Elam, complex manager, Wayne Farms LLC, Danville.

And past chairman is Todd Simmons, chief operating officer of Simmons Foods, Siloam Springs.

In addition, Acosta will serve as the 2013 Annual Poultry Festival chairman.

Board membersBoard members for 2012-2013 in-

cludes: Charles George, executive, George’s Inc., Springdale; Troy Green, plant manager, George’s Pro-cessing Inc., Springdale; Vaughn King, western region sales man-ager, Aviagen Inc.; Andrew Lekwa,

c o m p l e x m a n a g e r , Butterball LLC, Ozark; Drew Mc-Gee, se-nior vice president/g e n e r a l m a n a g e r raw poul-try, Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale; Jerry Moye, president of Cobb-Vantress Inc., Siloam Springs; Jeff Vanemburg, opera-tions manager, Pilgrim’s, Batesville;

McDaniel

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See Drought, Page 18

Poultry exports set records for second consecutive month

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — U.S. poultry meat exports for the first five months of 2012 in-creased by 13 percent from the same span last year, reaching 1.66 million metric tons, while export value for the period climbed 24 percent to $2.22 billion, according to trade data released recently by the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

For the second consecutive month, quantity and value of poul-try meat exports set year-on-year records.

Poultry exports for May reached 336,387 tons valued at $460 mil-lion, up 5 percent and 13 percent,

respectively, from the May 2011. Export value for the month was the highest ever.

BroilersMay exports of broiler meat

(excluding chicken paws) totaled 271,883 tons, up 6 percent from May 2011. Export value reached $353.8 million, up 17 percent year-over-year.

For January through May, cu-mulative exports of broiler meat (excluding paws) rose by 13 per-cent to 1.33 million tons, while

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IPC joins efforts to harmonize environmental impactsPARIS — The International Poul-

try Council is joining international private-sector livestock organiza-tions in a partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other entities to strengthen the science of environmental benchmarking of livestock supply chains.

This new FAO-led partnership seeks to improve the way the envi-ronmental impact of the global ani-mal agriculture industry is measured and assessed, which is the first step in improving the livestock indus-try’s sustainability. Participation by groups such as the IPC will provide the project with private sector tech-nical and financial resources.

“Poultry production is already seen as one of the most efficient users of scarce natural resources,”

said Jim Sumner, president of the International Poultry Council. “The IPC is eager to work with the FAO in developing standard international methods for measuring the environ-mental impact of the global poul-try and livestock industries. We’re hopeful that this project will help guide governments’ future livestock development policies, and provide a benchmark for the poultry industry to measure further improvements in our environmental performance and sustainability.”

Livestock farming and the con-sumption of animal products make a crucial contribution to the eco-nomic and nutritional well being of millions of people around the world, particularly in developing countries. FAO estimates that demand for live-stock products will continue to grow

over the decades to come. Meat con-sumption is projected to rise nearly 73 percent by 2050, with a large pro-portion of this being poultry meat.

“This continued growth in de-mand will be occurring within the context of increasing competition for finite and sometimes dwindling natural resources, additional chal-lenges posed by climate change, and the imperative of making food production much more sustain-able,” said Henning Steinfeld, chief of FAO’s Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch. “We need to safeguard this impor-tant food sector, and improving the efficiency of its use of natural resources and bettering its perfor-mance in terms of sustainability is key.”

Currently, however, many differ-ent methods are used to measure and assess the environmental impact of livestock production, making it dif-ficult to compare results and set pri-

orities for the continuous improve-ment of environmental performance along supply chains.

The FAO Partnership Project is seeking a common understanding of how to assess the environmental performance of the livestock sector against the goal of improved perfor-mance and economic and socially sustainable forms of production that will continue to provide food and income.

Activities planned for the initial three-year phase of the project in-clude the following:

Establishing science-based methods and guidelines on how to quantify livestock’s carbon foot-print, covering various types of livestock operations and rearing systems.

Creating a database of green-house gas emission factors gener-ated for the production of different kinds of animal feed - feed produc-tion and use offer significant op-

portunities for reducing livestock emissions.

Developing a methodology for measuring other important envi-ronmental pressures, such as water consumption and nutrient losses.

Initiating a communications campaign to promote use of the partnership’s methodologies and findings.

The International Poultry Coun-cil is the representative body of the world poultry meat producing in-dustries and trading partners with the shared objective of producing and trading safe, wholesome and sustainable poultry meat. IPC is a voluntary association made up of 26 country members representing more than 90 percent of world poul-try meat production, and numerous associate company members.

More information about the IPC can be obtained at www.interna-tionalpoultrycouncil.org.

Trade groups welcome letter urging Russian trade relations

WASHINGTON — The U.S.-Russia Business Council and the Coalition for U.S.-Russia Trade, a broad-based group of approxi-mately 150 U.S. corporations, trade associations and small businesses actively seeking to increase U.S. ex-ports and jobs with increased trade with Russia, welcomed a letter from 73 House Republican freshmen to President Obama that stressed a commitment to working together to ensure opportunities for American entrepreneurs and workers through increased trade with Russia.

The Coalition for U.S.-Russia Trade is housed at the U.S.-Russia Business Council (USRBC).

Russia is set to soon become a member of the World Trade Orga-nization, which will enable U.S. companies to take advantage of

many marketing openings, includ-ing lower Russian agricultural sub-sidies.

However, U.S. companies and farmers will not have access to the key benefits of Russia’s WTO accession until there is affirma-tive legislation passed by the U.S. Congress acknowledging Russia’s compliance with the Jackson-Vanik amendment and making Russia’s normal trade relations (NTR) sta-tus permanent. The U.S. president has the authority to extend normal trade relations to countries, but per-manent NTR status requires action by the U.S. Congress. Since 1994, both Republican and Democratic U.S. presidents have found Russia in compliance with Jackson-Vanik. That amendment was originally es-tablished to deny normal trading

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Study supports need to reform ethanol productionWASHINGTON — In response

to a new economic study on the im-pact of corn ethanol production on food prices and commodity price volatility, a coalition of livestock and poultry groups is urging Con-gress to reform the federal Renew-able Fuels Standard (RFS), which mandates the amount of ethanol that must be produced annually.

Conducted by Dr. Thomas Elam, president of FarmEcon LLC, an In-diana agricultural and food industry consulting firm, the study found that federal ethanol policy has increased and destabilized corn, soybean and wheat prices to the detriment of food and fuel producers and consumers.

The RFS, first imposed in 2005 and revised in 2007, this year re-quires 15.2 billion gallons of etha-nol to be produced. Most of that amount is blended into gasoline at 10 percent.

“The increases we’ve seen in commodity prices are strongly asso-ciated with the RFS mandate,” said Elam. “At the same time, we haven’t seen the promised benefits on oil im-

ports or gasoline prices. This means that while Americans are forced to pay more for food, they’re also not seeing lower prices at the pump; it’s a lose-lose situation.”

As a Senate Biofuels Investment and Renewable Fuels Standard Mar-ket Congressional Study Group ex-amines several aspects of the RFS, the study will provide critical facts needed to reform the current stan-dard. Among other results, the study found that because of the RFS:

Ethanol, because its energy cost is higher than gasoline and be-cause of its negative effect on fuel mileage, added about $14.5 billion, or 10 cents a gallon, to motorists’ fuel costs in 2011.

Increased ethanol production since 2007 has had no effect on gasoline production or oil imports, contrary to supporters’ claims.

Corn used for ethanol produc-tion rose 300 percent from 2005 to 2011, increasing from 1.6 bil-lion bushels to 5 billion. (Ethanol production now uses more than 40 percent of the U.S. annual corn sup-ply.)

Corn now represents about 80 percent of the cost of producing ethanol compared with 40-50 per-cent before implementation of the mandate.

Corn prices jumped to more than $6 a bushel in 2011 from $2 in 2005.

The rate of change for the Consumer Price Index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs increased by 79 percent while it decreased by 41 percent for non-food items since the RFS was revised in 2007.

Ethanol production costs and ethanol prices have all but elimi-nated a market for ethanol blends higher than 10 percent.

The United States exported 1.2 billion gallons of ethanol in 2011.

In addition to the effects of the RFS, the study pointed out that on an energy basis, ethanol, which has only 67 percent of the net energy per gallon of gasoline, never has been priced competitively with gasoline. It also found that, contrary to sup-porters of the RFS, oil imports have declined not because of increased

ethanol production but because of increased domestic crude oil pro-duction and higher refinery yields.

In urging reform of the RFS, the coalition cited the Elam study’s con-clusion that the mandate should be revised to allow automatic adjust-ments to reduce incentives for etha-nol production when corn stocks are forecast to reach critically low levels.

The coalition supports legislation — the “Renewable Fuels Standard Flexibility Act” (H.R. 3097), spon-sored by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Jim Costa (D-Calif.) — that would require a biannual review of ending corn stocks relative to their total use. If the ratio falls below 10 percent, the RFS could be reduced by 10 percent. If it falls below 7.5 percent, the mandate could shrink by 15 percent; below 6 percent, it could be reduced by 25 percent; and if the ratio falls below 5 percent, the ethanol mandate could be cut by 50 percent.

Such relief is extremely urgent, the coalition points out, because the

recent spike in corn prices prompted by drought conditions in much of the Corn Belt has analysts predicting the U.S. will run short of corn this summer. Another short corn crop would be extremely devastating to the animal agriculture industry, food makers and foodservice providers, as well as consumers, says the co-alition.

Because of the RFS, however, corn-based ethanol manufacturers are protected from sharing the full burden of a corn harvest shortfall.

The Elam study was funded by the American Meat Institute, Cali-fornia Dairy Inc., Milk Producers Cooperative, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Chicken Council, National Pork Producers Council and the National Turkey Federation.

A full copy of the study is available at http://www.national-chickencouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RFS-issues-FARMECON-LLC-7-16-12-FI-NAL.pdf

Stocks recently slipped after consumer spending slidesThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Stocks slipped on July 16 on Wall Street after a dis-appointing report on retail spending by U.S. consumers.

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age fell 53 points, or 0.4 percent, to 12,724 at 12:30 p.m. (EST).

It was the third straight month that retail sales fell.

The Commerce Department said retail sales fell 0.5 percent in June from the month before as Americans spent less on autos, furniture and ap-pliances.

The latest figures are worrisome because the last time consumer spending fell for three straight months was during the fall of 2008, at the depth of the global financial crisis.

Companies that rely heavily on spending by consumers were among the weakest on the New York Stock Exchange. Home Depot fell 60 cents to $51.49 and Lowe’s Cos. lost 83 cents to $25.89.

Industrial stocks also fell sharply. General Electric lost 26 cents to $19.51 and heavy equipment maker Caterpillar lost $1.27 to $80.80, one of the biggest losses among the 30 stocks that make up the Dow aver-age.

Markets were also taking a hit af-ter the International Monetary Fund lowered its estimate for global eco-nomic growth. The global lender said it expects the world economy to expand 3.5 percent this year, down from its previous estimate of 3.6 percent in April.

In other trading, the Standard &

Poor’s 500 index fell four points to 1,353 and the Nasdaq composite in-dex fell nearly nine points to 2,899.

Comments from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao were also weighing on the market. Wen said his country’s economy has not yet entered a re-covery and “economic difficul-ties may continue for some time.” Some of the weakness in China comes from the debt crisis in Eu-rope, which has crippled spending on imported goods.

In Europe, borrowing rates for Italy and Spain rose again, the latest signal that bond investors are leery of the finances of those countries. Stocks fell 2 percent in Spain and 0.4 percent in Italy. Benchmark in-dexes in Germany and France were flat.


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By Bill MattosSpecial to Poultry Times

MODESTO, Calif. — The Cali-fornia Poultry Federation hosts members, guests and allied col-leagues at our Annual Meeting and Conference in September each year, and again this year our event (Sept. 13-14) is surrounded by water at the Monterey Plaza Hotel in Monterey

, Calif., one of the most inspiring and beautiful areas of the world. My members love it in Monterey, and from the attendance of allied com-panies across America, they do too. But today, while I may talk a little bit about our speakers and conference

p r o g r a m , my main reason for writing is to highlight the impor-tance of these annual m e e t i n g s for every state poul-try industry group. hese m e e t i n g s

are a time when our member compa-nies can set aside their competition for consumers and spend time in meetings and receptions to discuss politics, regulations, animal welfare, processing and other areas where we can find ways to improve our in-dustry and move it forward. That is

certainly the goal of the CPF and its member companies. I was hired 22 years ago, and although most of the board has changed somewhat, the men and women who set our policy still tell me that “our meetings aren’t held for partying, but to improve our companies and find ways to make us all profitable.”

That direction still sits at the top of our mission and our long term strategy and goals, and I think many states have that same objective. Companies want to find ways to im-prove, while also coming together to educate and lobby our elected leaders and regulatory agencies, whether they are in our own state or in Washington, D.C. Our annual meetings give us the opportunity to meet state and federal officials, the very people who make decisions that affect us directly. We want to get to know them, and we hope they want to get to know every one of us as well. We invite politicians as well as political writers and regulatory officials to give us their perspec-tive on what is happening in their world. Then, during our breaks and receptions, we find time to further discuss how what they do affects the industry. Sometimes we thank them and many times we argue for fair-ness and common sense. We hope our interaction helps, and we know it’s important.

This year Dr. Daniel Engeljohn,

the recently named assistant admin-istrator of the USDA FSIS (Food Safety & Inspection Service) Office of Field Operations, will talk about his new work and his unique chal-lenges; and we have already asked him to come prepared to update us on the changes we hope to see with some rules and regulations coming out of the FSIS. Dr. Engeljohn al-ways listens, and our work with him over the years has been remarkable. We are excited that he will join us this year.

Political writer Dan Walters is re-turning again this year, and he is one of the most informed and keen writ-ers on politics in California. Based in Sacramento with McClatchy “Bee” newspapers, Walters is by

far one of the best political writers in the state.

National Chicken Council’s Vice President of Communications Tom Super will update our group on his

Mattos

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Bill Mattos is president of the California Poultry Federation with offices in Modesto, Calif.

Drought shows need for farm regs

Bob Stallman is president of the American Farm Bureau Federa-tion with offices in Washington,

By Bob StallmanSpecial to Poultry Times

WASHINGTON —\!q The most widespread drought in a generation has imposed great stress on people, crops and livestock. While the full impact on the nation won’t be known for several months, many farmers al-ready know they won’t have a crop. Ranchers and livestock producers are having difficulties getting feed and forage for their livestock. The on-farm economic impacts ar

real and serious.From a policy perspective, it is

important to remember that we don’t yet know the drought’s im-pact on the food supply and food prices, though we are seeing effects on feed prices. The drought’s ef-fect on the 2012 corn crop is all the more dramatic because of the initial projections that U.S. farmers would harvest the largest corn crop ever. The latest forecasts still suggest we are on pace to produce the third or fourth largest corn crop on record. While the true extent of the damage will not be known until harvest is

completed, we expect USDA’s Au-gust crop report, which is now be-ing compiled to be released in three weeks, will provide a clearer picture as it will include actual in-the-field surveys. And we know, quite often, if conditions do not improve, the biggest impact comes in the follow-ing crop year.

Data suggests that most of the corn and other row crops in the drought-stricken regions are covered by crop insurance. It’s often a different story for producers of other crops. Fruit

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Our annual meetings give us the opportu-nity to meet state and federal officials, the very people who make decisions that affect us directly.


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Financial management: Donnie Smith, CEO of Tyson Foods, delivered the opening remarks at the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s recent 2012 Financial Management Seminar at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Seminar highlights importance of financial management

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — “The first one to the micro-phone controls the conversation,” said Donnie Smith, CEO of Tyson Foods, during his opening remarks at the U.S. Poultry & Egg Associ-ation’s recent 2012 Financial Man-agement Seminar at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Smith stressed the need for food producers to better define the ben-efits of modern agricultural produc-tion to meet the needs of an increas-ing world demand for safe, abundant and affordable food. He passionately challenged the audience to become engaged, noting 5 million people die every year from undernourishment; and yet most consumers know little about food production or the ben-efits of modern agriculture.

Smith further remarked that “al-though different segments of ag-riculture may not agree on every issue, there are many issues we do agree on. We must sing with one voice as we teach the younger gen-eration the benefits of modern agri-culture practices.”

His remarks came after Smith had provided his perspective on the im-portance of financial management in the poultry industry.

“At Tyson, both finance and hu-man resources are important mem-bers of the management team and

are involved as strategic partners in setting the direction for the com-pany. Finance serves a major role in assessing risks and opportunities, taking ownership of projects where possible and delivering data along with recommendations for improve-ment,” Smith said.

He also stressed that it is equally important to cultivate talent within the finance function and throughout the organization.

The seminar brought together fi-nancial managers from the poultry and egg industry to discuss current issues impacting the industry. Elec-tion year politics and the uncertainty surrounding future policy decisions were the focus of several presenta-tions including an economic update by Andrew Busch of BMO Harris Bank and tax and regulatory updates by Rob Gunter and Bob Childress of Frost LLC.

Mike Brown, president of the National Chicken Council, gave a “Washington Update,” with as much clarity as an election year al-lows, the group noted.

He highlighted the initial suc-cess of NCC’s organization of a Congressional Chicken Caucus, currently approaching 50 members of the House of Representatives, who generally support the industry and are the point group for actions

by NCC on behalf of the industry. Brown discussed the current Farm Bill reauthorization as everyone awaits the House version to be re-leased. The Senate version pretty much meets Brown’s opinion that “a successful farm bill is one that we are not in” — suggesting that the less government intervention in our industry, the better.

He also updated the attendees on the status of the Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection rules proposed by the USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service, with no further action expected until after the election.

Jerry Moye, president of Cobb-Vantress, looked at “Global Poultry Trends” from the breeding com-pany perspective. He indicated that the industry currently has the low-est breeder flock supply since the 1990s, which suggests slow to no growth in the near term.

However, Moye sees both Rus-sia and India as major growth op-portunities with Russia striving to be more self-sufficient and expand their industry and India’s popula-tion and relatively low per capita consumption of poultry offering tremendous growth potential.

More information can be ob-tained from USPOULTRY at www.uspoultry.org.

latest efforts to bring sanity to the media and what he and other agri-cultural associations are doing to spread accurate messages to both consumers and Washington, D.C. politicians. Super brings 13 years of combined experience in strate-gic communications, public policy, politics and meat and poultry issues management to NCC’s senior man-

agement team. He is responsible for day-to-day media relations, media outreach, social media manage-ment and strategic communications planning to supplement the National Chicken Council’s legislative, reg-ulatory, consumer education and marketing efforts.

Sherrie Rosenblatt, communica-tions director for the National Tur-key Federation has made similar presentations to our group, energiz-

ing us on the new directions we may be able to include in our local mar-keting and communications efforts.

Annual meetings make lots of sense for all of us in the poultry asso-ciation community, and they bring us closer to the people who can sometimes make or break our in-dustry. The more we come together the more we learn from each other; we hope this turns into higher profits and a growing industry.

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Cal-Maine Foods acquiring assets of Pilgrim’s Pride egg production

JACKSON, Miss. — Cal-Maine Foods Inc. on July 18 announced that the company has reached an agreement to acquire the commer-cial egg operations of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp.

The assets to be purchased by Cal-Maine Foods include two pro-duction complexes with capacity for approximately 1.4 million lay-ing hens and adjacent land located near Pittsburg, Texas.

The company expects to close the transaction in August 2012.

Commenting on the announce-ment, Dolph Baker, president and CEO of Cal-Maine Foods, said, “Cal-Maine Foods is very pleased to announce this acquisition. Pil-grim’s Pride has an excellent repu-tation and strong brand recognition with a well-established customer base.”

“These production facilities will complement our existing op-erations in Texas and the additional capacity will enhance our ability to

serve our customers in the Texas markets.

“We welcome this opportunity for the continued growth of our business and the ability to provide greater value for our customers and shareholders,” Baker said.

Cal-Maine Foods is primarily engaged in the production, grad-

ing, pack-ing and sale of fresh shell eggs, i n c l u d -ing con-ventional, cage-free, o r g a n i c and nutri-t iona l ly -enhanced eggs. The company,

which is headquartered in Jackson, Miss., is the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the United States and sells the majority of its shell eggs in approximately 29 states across the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

More information can be ob-tained at www.calmainefoods.com.

Baker

Other Business News

West Liberty earns ‘landfill free’ status

WEST LIBERTY, Iowa — West Liberty Foods LLC has announced that its Mount Pleasant, Iowa, facil-ity has successfully achieved ‘land-fill free’ status.

This status was independently verified by NSF International Strategic Registrations Ltd. (NSF-ISR), a leader in management sys-tems registrations whose parent organization NSF International writes standards and tests and cer-tifies products for the food, water, building products and consumer goods industries.

West Liberty Foods is among the first companies in the U.S. to have its ‘landfill free’ claim verified by a third party organization, a major milestone in the food industry, the company said. This is the second of West Liberty Foods’ facilities to become landfill free.

The NSF-ISR verification pro-cess was used to ensure that West Liberty Foods could demonstrate the total waste from its Mount Pleasant facility entering the land-fill was less than the industry ac-ceptable 1 percent. Through work-ing to accomplish this status, West Liberty Foods’ Mount Pleasant facility has successfully diverted more than 2 million pounds of an-nual waste from the local landfill.

“To have two of our facilities ‘landfill free’ in the same year is a fulfilling achievement,” said Ger-ald Lessard, vice president and chief operating officer for West Liberty Foods. “I’m proud of the hard work, dedication and the en-gagement of our team members in becoming ‘landfill free.’ The process of becoming ‘landfill free’ was a natural extension of our ISO:14001 certification process and paved the way for this achieve-ment.”

West Liberty Foods developed a two-step approach to accomplish-ing this status. First, the facility completed an internal audit to as-

sess current practices. This audit allowed the facility to increase its recycling initiatives by identify-ing local vendors to recycle waste for energy. After the audit, internal processes were developed and extensive employee training was undertaken. West Liberty Foods’ employees are critical to the overall success of this program.

“Having another facility earn ‘landfill free’ designation exem-plifies West Liberty Foods’ excep-tional commitment to protecting the environment,” said Tony Giles, NSF-ISR business development director.

As a result of the success seen in Tremonton and Mount Pleas-ant, West Liberty Foods is one step closer to becoming landfill free company-wide, the company said, adding that it is working to com-plete the process at the West Lib-erty, Iowa, location later this year.

More information can be ob-tained at www.wlfoods.com.

Perdue Foundation helps literacy prog.

SALISBURY, Md. — Imagine not being able to read this story be-cause you lack basic literacy skills. At the 21st Century Family Liter-acy Center in Ahoskie, N.C., staff members are committed to helping students improve their reading and writing skills.

As part of its commitment to improving the quality of life in the communities in which it operates, Perdue, through a $1,000 grant funded by the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, is helping the Family Literacy Center pursue its mission. The grant was recently presented to officials of Hertford County Public School and the Literacy Center.

“More than 800 students and adults in Hertford County were served by the programs and re-sources provided by the Family Literacy Center in the last year,” said Alice Cale, site coordinator of

the facility. “Thanks to the support of Perdue and the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, we’re able to provide supplies and incentives to help stu-dents and adults excel in our after-school tutoring and computer lab programs.”

The Literacy Center, located on the Ahoskie Elementary School campus, provides programs and opportunities for parents to get en-gaged in their children’s learning and guidance on how to work with them at home.

“Reading is essential to aca-demic success, and the Family Lit-eracy Center provides a haven for literary resources for students and parents,” said Julius Walker Jr., interim superintendent of Hertford County Public Schools. “We’re very appreciative to have a partner-ship with Perdue and the Founda-tion in helping enhance the needs of our students, especially in these tough economic times.”

In presenting the grant, Jeff Stalls, director of Perdue operations in Lewiston, said, “At Perdue, we have a long history of supporting educational initiatives through the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, and we applaud the Family Literacy Center’s efforts aimed at increas-ing the likelihood that students will stay in school and complete their education.”

More information can be ob-tained at www.perdue.com.

Dutch hatchery co. opens new facility

VEENENDAAL, Netherlands — Hatchery ter Heerdt recently celebrated the opening of its new hatchery facility. With a history of 80 years, Hatchery ter Heerdt is one of the leading companies in the layer industry in the Netherlands. The company is exclusive distribu-tor of Lohmann Tierzucht products, offering a wide range of ompetitive

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competitive laying birds in the Ben-elux region (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), company officials noted.

The new turnkey hatchery facil-ity, equipped with technology from Dutch-based incubator supplier HatchTech, has an initial annual production capacity of 9.2 million layers, although the current build-ing, cooling, heating and ventilation equipment is designed for a total fu-ture production of 15 million layers, the company said.

Together with his team, Hatch-ery and Technical Director Niek ter Heerdt, worked on plans for the new hatchery facility for almost three years.

“The choice for HatchTech is taken on the basis of sound testing and evaluations of various incubator suppliers,” he said. “Besides a high-quality, day-old chick that is opti-mally developed during incubation, we are also striving for maximum uniformity.”

“Hatchery ter Heerdt’s vision is for a production facility that deliv-ers laying hens of the highest qual-ity,” said Michiel van Veldhuisen, area manager, Europe, HatchTech. “Their progressive approach to-wards modern farming motivates us to keep being innovative. We are looking forward to working with them every step of the way and are proud that once again we have been able to furnish a turnkey hatchery in the Netherlands, our home mar-ket.”

The new hatchery has been opera-tional since June 2012.

Russian co. gains Meyn-Ishida eqpt.

OOSTZAAN, Netherlands — Healthy Farm, one of the lead-ing producers of high quality food products in Russia, has recently invested in the first Meyn-Ishida poultry processing solution in the Ural region.

With a total capacity of two 6,000 birds per hour processing lines, Healthy Farm will double its current

production capacity to 152,000 birds per day. This increased capacity, in combination with a state-of-the-art multihead weighing and batching line, will allow Healthy Farm to further strengthen its market posi-tion, the company said. Healthy Farm was previously known as Ural Broiler.

Meyn will install a complete new processing line and will also extend the existing line installed by Meyn in 2009. Also, a new universal mul-tihead weighing and batching line from Ishida will provide a solution for all steps in the packaging pro-cess, the company noted.

“With previous Meyn projects, we already dramatically reduced labor costs and increased the qual-ity of our final product,” said Evg-eny Sergeevich Narukov, Healthy Farm’s CEO. “Now with Meyn-Ishida we will also be reducing our give-away and increase product re-liability considerably.”

At the moment, Healthy Farm is also building additional housing ca-pacity. The renewed high-tech plant will be running by the end of 2012, the company said. Healthy Farm manages its own broiler breeding facility and parent stock and is a market leader in the Ural region.

Besides the Ural region, Healthy Farm also focuses on the Siberian region of Russia. With this invest-ment, Healthy Farm said that it an-ticipates future growth, with export as one of its long-term goals.

Meyn-Ishida has obtained sev-eral international contracts, includ-ing fully integrated plants in Saudi Arabia (Almarai), Russia (Miratorg, Valujki, Tambov), Chile (Ariztia) and Poland (Wipasz).

More information can be obtained at www.meyn-ishida.com.

AFIA notes first pet food certif.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Amer-ican Feed Industry Association has announced that Eurofins Scientific Inc., an independent third-party au-ditor, has issued the first three Pet Food Manufacturing Facility Certi-fication Program certificates.

This voluntary, third-party fa-cility certification program is de-signed specifically for companies manufacturing pet food or pet food ingredients. The Pet Food Manu-facturing Facility Certification Pro-gram (PFMFCP) and the Pet Food Ingredient Facility Certification Program (PFIFCP) were developed by AFIA’s pet food and quality com-mittees with input from third-party food safety experts.

These two certification programs build upon AFIA’s domestic Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Pro-gram, which was launched in 2004 for the feed industry, the association noted. The new programs are de-signed to monitor the process con-trols specifically related to the man-ufacturing of pet food and should meet and in some parts exceed the anticipated requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act.

AFIA is seeking U.S. Food & Drug Administration recognition of these programs and encourages FDA to use these programs in their risk assessment of the industry for inspection priorities.

“AFIA sees these programs as a model for the entire pet food indus-try,” said Joel G. Newman, AFIA’s president and CEO. “The third-party audit follows principles laid out in both the FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practices as well as the basic principles of HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points).”

The first Pet Food Manufactur-ing Facility Certification Program certificates have been issued and granted to the Nutro Company’s Kansas City, Mo., Victorville, Ca-lif., and Lebanon, Tenn. facilities by ESI.

Jan Aretz, vice president of re-search and development for the Nu-tro Co., said, “In our quest to make a better world for pets through the power of natural nutrition . . . (a) rigorous internal quality and food safety program is vital, but we also recognize the importance of exter-nal food safety audits like the AFIA PFMFCP program. This type of independent program, specifically designed for pet food facilities, is what our industry needs to consis-

tently raise the bar on food safety and to ensure the food in all our pets’ bowls is safe. Everyone at the Nutro Company is very proud to receive the first PFMFCP certificate.”

More information can be obtained at www.safefeedsafefood.org.

KFC & Comedy Ctrl. partner on contest

NEW YORK — If bite-sized chicken can grow up, so can you. Comedy Central has teamed up with KFC to create the original digital se-ries and contest “Growing Up and Getting Out.”

The five episode web series, which began on July 17, taps into the growing numbers of the “mil-lennial generation” who are mov-ing back home to live with their par-ents. The partnership also launches a contest that asks fans each week to share pictures and stories on www.freerentcontest.com, that express the humorous side of living at home with their parents.

At the end of the campaign (which runs to Aug. 20), five winners will receive rent for the year in the amount of $12,000 cash. Winners will also receive an additional $500 in cash and $600 in KFC “Chicken Checks” redeemable for KFC prod-ucts, which can be used to cater a moving out party.

Winners will also be encouraged to give $100 of the Chicken Checks to their parents in celebration of “Growing Up and Getting Out.”

The digital original series “Grow-ing Up and Getting Out” features a cast from stand-up, improv and sketch comedy. The series revolves around Michael (played by come-dian Michael Palascak) and chroni-cles funny moments as he adjusts to moving back home with his parents, played by comedians Dave Koech-ner (“The Office,” “Anchorman”) and Mo Collins (“MADtv”).

Each week, the series will capture

the drama, tensions and funny mo-ments between at-home millenni-als and their parents. Episodes will include: Homecoming (July 17); Dinner (July 23); Chores (July 30); Date (Aug. 6) and Video Games (Aug. 13).

Full rules for the contest, as well as to submit an entry can be obtained at www.freerentcontest.com.

Wingstop sales up in second quarter

RICHARDSON, Texas — Wing-stop has announced that same store sales for the second quarter are up 12.6 percent from the same quarter last year and 11.5 percent for the year-to-date.

“The popularity of chicken wings is bigger than ever,” said Charlie Morrison, who was named Wing-stop president and CEO in June. “At a time when many concepts are scrambling to add chicken and wings to the menu, we have been perfect-ing the wing and fresh, made-to-or-der chicken for almost two decades — we are the Wing Experts.”

Wingstop, which only serves fresh, cooked-to-order wings, boneless wings, strips and Glider sandwiches, has opened 25 new locations so far this year. The com-pany expects to open an additional 30 restaurants in the third and fourth quarters.

The restaurant chain has also set a franchise sales record for the first half of 2012 — signing agreements to develop 101 new restaurants.

Other milestones this quarter in-clude the formation of four new ad-vertising co-ops in Chicago, Phoe-nix, San Diego and Denver, and the launch of its first national Facebook campaign, which almost quadrupled the number of Wingstop fans.

Wingstop plans to open an addi-tional 30 stores this year, including its first restaurants in Michigan and Seattle and new locations in devel-oping markets Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Charleston and Phoenix.

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Duane Weems, live operations manager, Peco Foods, Batesville; Tim Garber, manager of breeders, Foster Farms LLC, Glenwood; Brent Glasgow, complex man-ager, Pilgrim’s Pride, DeQueen; Trent Goins, senior vice president, O.K. Foods Inc., Fort Smith; James Smith, vice president of live opera-tions, Simmons Foods Inc., Siloam Springs; and Jim Smith, president of Keith Smith Co. Inc.

Two allied membership repre-

sentatives serve on this year’s board of directors. They are: Vic Smith, Phibro Animal Health; and Dr. Sara Steinlage, Elanco.

Newly elected board members are McGee, Garber and Glasgow.

Marvin Childers, of Little Rock, Ark., serves as president and chief lobbyist of the Poultry Federation; John Bryan, of Jefferson City, Mo., serves as vice president for Mis-souri; and John Ward, of Oklahoma City, serves as vice president for Oklahoma.

“Our federation board of direc-tors has a strong history of main-taining strong leaders that will con-tribute to the long term prosperity of our industry,” said Childers. “We thank them for their time and dedi-cation.”

The Poultry Federation is a tri-state trade association representing the poultry and egg industries in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Offices are located in Little Rock, Ark., Jefferson City, Mo., and Okla-homa City, Okla..

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value reached $1.68 billion, up 28 percent from the same period in 2011, both setting year-on-year re-cords.

Broiler meat shipments to Mex-ico for the period grew by 18 per-cent over last year to 217,062 tons, while exports to Russia increased by 138 percent to 111,333 tons. Exports to Cuba hit 64,367 tons, up 267 percent year on year, while shipments to Canada were 63,712 tons, up 19 percent.

Exports to other important mar-kets included Angola, 62,445 tons, up 30 percent; Taiwan, 60,581 tons, up 17 percent; Hong Kong, 59,279 tons, down 34 percent; Iraq, 53,558 tons, down 11 percent; Kazakhstan, 43,504 tons, up almost eight-fold year on year; and China, 34,108

tons, up 64 percent.Exports of U.S. chicken paws

in May were 32,319 tons valued at $44.2 million, up 9 percent and 2 percent compared to May 2011. Cumulative paw exports for the first five months reached 163,518 tons, up 20 percent year on year. Export value set a year-year-year record at $219.8 million, up 9 percent.

Of total paw shipments, 81 per-cent were shipped to Hong Kong, and 17 percent were shipped to mainland China.

Total January-May broiler ex-ports (including paws) this year set year-on-year records in both volume and value, with an export quantity of 1.5 million tons valued at $1.9 billion, up 14 percent and 26 percent, respectively.

Of the total, 43 percent was shipped to the top five markets —

Mexico, Hong Kong, Russia, Cuba and Canada.

TurkeysMay exports of U.S. turkey meat

declined to 27,989 tons, down 5 per-cent from the same month in 2011. Even so, export value set a record for the month of May at $52.3 mil-lion, up 4 percent from May 2011.

Cumulative January-May turkey exports reached 139,183 tons, up 11 percent, with a value of $267.6 million, an increase of 23 percent from the same period in 2011. Both quantity and export value set year-on-year records.

Exports to Mexico, the top mar-ket for U.S. turkey, were 75,956 tons valued at $156.7 million, up 6 percent and 14 percent, respec-tively. Shipments to China, the second most important market for U.S. turkey, dropped by 20 percent to 14,931 tons, while export value reached $24.4 million, up 21 per-cent.

Five markets accounted for 79 percent of total U.S. turkey meat exports — Mexico, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Canada, with Mexico alone accounting for 55 percent.

EggsFor table eggs, export quantity for

May 2012 was 10.2 million dozen valued at $8.6 million, up 21.7 per-cent and 5.6 percent, respectively, thanks largely to increased ship-ments to Hong Kong and the U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates).

January-May table egg exports reached 39.7 million dozen valued at $35.6 million, up 28 percent and 26 percent year-on-year, respec-tively. The top five markets of Hong Kong, Canada, the U.A.E., the Ba-hamas and Netherlands Antilles accounted for 81 percent of total exports.

For processed egg products, May exports were $12.6 million, up 4 percent from May 2011. While export value to Japan, which is

normally the top market for U.S. processed eggs, decreased by 43 percent to $3.9 million, exports to the European Union increased by 116 percent to $4.6 million, largely a factor of the shortage of breaking stock in the EU (European Union).

The cumulative value of egg products exports for January through May were $59.1 million, up 19 percent. Exports to the EU in-creased by 141 percent to $23 mil-lion, accounting for 39 percent of U.S. total exports, while shipments to Japan decreased by 27 percent to $18.1 million, accounting for 31 percent of the total.

Total egg exports (table eggs plus egg products in shell egg equiva-lents) for the first five months of this year were 99.3 million dozen, up 6 percent from the same period of last year, while export value hit $94.7 million, up 22 percent year over year. Both export quantity and export value set year-on-year records.

More information can be ob-tained at www.usapeec.org.

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producers in the upper Midwest had entire crops wiped out this spring by late freezes and other producers have had crop losses due to exces-sive rains in late-season blizzards.

That is why we have called for a strengthened federal crop insurance program.

This drought and the uncertainty it is causing farmers and ranchers and other segments of our industry underscores the importance of com-

pleting action on the 2012 farm bill. We will be working closely with USDA and Congress to determine if there are other practical solutions that could help producers not cov-ered by crop insurance or other di-saster mitigation tools.

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Scientists question recent news report linking urinary tract infections and chicken antibiotics

WASHINGTON — Amid a re-port that aired on July 11 on ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” several in the scientific, veterinary and food safety fields are affirming the safety of chicken and question-ing the claims made by the report and the research that formed its ba-sis.

The ABC report cites a small Ca-nadian study that concludes a de-finitive link between the E. coli that causes human urinary tract infec-tions and E. coli that could be found on chicken products.

“Bacteria move dynamically, not just in one direction and bacteria do not necessarily move from animals to humans so all pathways must be considered,” said Dr. Randall Singer, doctor of veterinary medicine and associate professor of epidemiol-ogy at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Veterinary and Bio-medical Sciences, who reviewed the scientific literature referenced in the ABC report. “Perhaps most impor-

tantly, the potential transmission of E. coli to humans says nothing about why these E. coli are antibiotic re-sistant. The resistances observed in these E. coli are common globally and are unlikely to be attributed to chickens given the few antibiotics available for use in poultry in the U.S.”

Singer continued, “This story has nothing to do with antibiotics in poultry production and further changes to antibiotic use in poultry will not change the potential human health risks associated with these foodborne E. coli.”

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Charles L. Hofacre, professor and director of clinical services at the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine, echoed Sing-er’s perspective.

“The data is not an accurate rep-resentation of how antibiotic resis-tance transfers from meat to hu-mans,” Hofacre added. “The study’s authors are making some really big

stretches of their data.”The National Chicken Council

also sought to correct the record about the claim in the ABC report that, “the Food and Drug Adminis-tration says 80 percent of all antibi-otics sold in the United States are fed to livestock and even healthy chicken.”

This statistic is not attributed to FDA. The fact is there is no com-parable human and animal data that makes such an analysis possible. Fully 40 percent of the animal an-tibiotics counted are compounds not used in human medicine, and therefore, their use in animals can-not be compared with those used in humans. FDA has outlined this point in letters to Congress that list several reasons the data cannot be compared and used in this manner.

Dr. Ashley Peterson, National Chicken Council vice president of science and technology, also ques-tioned the results of the study and reminded consumers about proper

cooking and handling of poultry products, because all bacteria, re-sistant or not, are killed by proper cooking.

“While we question the overall conclusions of these findings, the study’s researchers point to im-proper food handling during meat preparation for foodborne urinary tract infections,” Peterson said. “So it is always pertinent to remind consumers about the importance of safe food handling and cooking — washing of hands, cutting boards and utensils, cooking chicken to an internal temperature of 165 degrees F and preventing cross contamina-tion in the kitchen.”

In June, the National Chicken Council and a number of livestock, poultry and veterinary medical as-sociations wrote to Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), citing several published, peer-reviewed risk assessments showing any threat to human health from antibiotic use in livestock and poultry production

is negligible, and pointed out many of the bacterial illnesses becoming resistant to antibiotics in human medicine have little or no link to an-tibiotic use in food animals.

“All public health professionals, including veterinarians, are serious about reducing the risks of antibiotic resistance,” the groups wrote. “It is vital that public policy decisions about the use of these products be made on the basis of science and risk assessment. The research is clear that the contribution of using antibiotics in food animal production to the hu-man burden of antibiotic resistance is quite small, if it exists at all.

“We are encouraged by the steps being taken by FDA to extend vet-erinarian involvement in all uses of antibiotics in food animals and believe FDA’s action will be yet an-other risk mitigation step to ensure the careful and judicious use of anti-biotics in food animals,” the groups concluded.

U.S. and S.A. soybean farmers unite in their support of biotech

ST. LOUIS — Farmers who pro-duce 90 percent of the world’s soy-bean exports have joined forces to support biotechnology in the Euro-pean Union.

Soybean farmers from the U.S. and their South American coun-terparts from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, though competitors in global soy trade, are presenting a united front in meet-ings with members of the European Union (EU) food and feed chain and representatives of the EU govern-ment.

The farmers plan to discuss the importance of biotechnology to feed a growing population and how slow

government-approval processes and restrictions based on non-scientific reasoning cause trade disruption.

“This has been a very important meeting for us,” said Bob Metz, soybean farmer from West Brown Valley, S.D., and vice chairman of the United Soybean Board’s Global Opportunities program. “The Eu-ropean Union is a very important customer for us and obviously a large population. They only pro-duce about 2 percent of their protein needs in the European Union so they have a great dependence on the rest of the world for soybeans.”

The EU has a lengthy approval

process on new biotech varieties, which has not only affected soy ex-ports to these 27 countries, but also to other European countries as well as countries that trade with the EU, the groups noted.

“We have delivered a very strong message as we stand together with our South American friends saying that the market is moving forward with biotech events, not only from the U.S. but from universities in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay as well,” added Metz. “As these new traits come forward, the European Union really needs to find a way to accept these traits in a more timely fashion.”


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USPOULTRY seeks funding applications

TUCKER — The USPOULTRY Foundation is now accepting appli-cations from colleges and universi-ties for industry education and re-cruitment funding. Any institution of higher education in the U.S. that offers an identifiable poultry pro-gram or can show plausible ways of connecting students to the poultry industry is eligible to apply for a re-cruitment grant of up to $7,000.

A committee of university profes-sionals will review funding requests and make recommendations to the USPOULTRY Foundation board of directors. Institutions may apply for

a grant by completing the funding form and submitting the form via email to Barbara Jenkins at [email protected] or via regular mail by Aug. 15.

The form is available at http://www.poultryfoundation.org/files/psfund2012.doc.

Established in 1994, the US-POULTRY Foundation funds re-cruitment and retention efforts at colleges and universities that en-courage careers in the poultry in-dustry.

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Women’s conference focus is development

TUCKER — The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s Women’s Lead-ership Conference, which provides

relevant professional information to women from diverse backgrounds who work in all aspects of the poul-try industry, will be held Aug. 16-17, at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Resort & Spa in Destin, Fla. The focus will be on providing profes-sional development and enhancing leadership and management skills.

“Success is not merely checking goals off a list, but also how well you uplift your team and grow in all areas of your professional life,” said program committee chairwoman Dianne Cooper, Cooper Farms, Oakwood, Ohio. “The program will focus on the importance of taking the initiative in your career in order to define and exemplify your lead-ership goals. There will be a variety of vital topics, such as time manage-ment, the importance of health and nutrition, as well as seeking and uti-lizing professional guidance in your career.”

Among the topics on the agenda are Building Effective and Diverse Teams; The Mentor and the Mentee: How Have You Progressed; Health and Nutrition Matter Too; The Time of Your Life: Creating Extra Time from Thin Air Without Smoke, Mir-rors, or Camera Tricks!; Climbing

The Ladder . . . A Leader’s Perspec-tive; and Finding Your DIVA in Leadership.

The program committee included Tabatha Milligan, Perdue Farms Inc.; Teresa Dunlap, Wayne Farms LLC; Alisa Chandler, University of Georgia; Lisa Noffsinger, Mis-sissippi State University; and Lyne Nolen, Marshall Durbin Food Corp.

Registration for the Women’s Leadership Conference can be found at http://www.uspoultry.org/educationprograms/index.cfm#wlc.

PAACO announces Canadian training

REDFIELD — The Professional Animal Auditor Certification Or-ganization Inc. (PAACO) will hold a Canadian version of its Poultry Welfare Auditor Training Course in Mississauga, Ontario, on Sept. 25-27, in cooperation with the Poultry Industry Council. This will be the first time the course has been of-

fered outside the United States. “Over the years we have had

significant interest and participa-tion from Canadians in our poultry courses,” says PAACO chairman Dr. Karen Christensen, of O.K. Farms, Ft. Smith, Ark., who is also one of the main instructors for the upcoming training. “When we were approached about holding a training in Canada, it seemed a logical next step to broaden our scope and also accommodate the increasing de-mand from their poultry industry.”

Although the course has been slightly modified to align with the Canada poultry industry structure, the training will adhere to poultry welfare audit criteria that are com-monly audited and will be equiva-lent to the U.S.-based sessions.

Welfare will be addressed related to broilers, turkeys and egg layers and includes production segments of breeders, hatchery, grower/pro-ducer, transportation and process-ing.

Interested persons should contact PAACO Executive Director Mike Simpson at 402-403-0104; e-mail: [email protected]; PAACO at http://www.animalauditor.org.

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AUG 5-9 — WORLD’S POULTRY CONGRESS, Bahia Convention Center, Salvador, Brazil. Contact: World Poultry Science Association, Brazilian Branch. Ph: +55 19 3243-6555; Fax: +55 19 3243-8542; [email protected]; http://www.wpsa2012.com.

AUG 8-9 — NCPF ANNUAL MTNG., Grandover Resort, Greensboro, N.C. Contact: North Carolina Poultry Federation, 4020 Barrett Drive, Suite 102, Raleigh, N.C. 27609. Ph: 919-783-8218; [email protected]; http://www.nncpoultry.org.

AUG 16-17 — WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONF., Hilton Sandestin Beach Resort & Spa, Destin, Fla. Contact: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, 1530

Cooledge Road, Tucker, Ga. 30084-7303, Ph: 770-493-9401; [email protected]; http://www.uspoultry.org,

AUG 20 — UEP AREA MTNG., Atlanta, Ga. Contact: United Egg Producers, 1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770-360-9220; [email protected]; http://www.unitedegg.com.

AUG 22 — UEP AREA MTNG., Philadelphia, Pa. Contact: United Egg Producers, 1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770-360-9220; [email protected]; http://www.unitedegg.com.

AUG 23 — UEP AREA MTNG., Columbus, Ohio. Contact: United Egg Producers,

1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770-360-9220; [email protected]; http://www.unitedegg.com.

AUG 28 — UEP AREA MTNG., Des Moines, Iowa. Contact: United Egg Producers, 1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770-360-9220; [email protected]; http://www.unitedegg.com.

AUG 29 — UEP AREA MTNG., Ontario, Calif. Contact: United Egg Producers, 1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770-360-9220; [email protected]; http://www.unitedegg.com.

AUG 30 — UEP AREA MTNG., Seattle, Wash. Contact: United Egg Producers, 1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770-360-9220; [email protected]; http://www.unitedegg.com.

SEP 4-6 — ARKANSAS NUTRITION CONF. Contact: Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 1446, Little Rock, Ark. 72203. Ph: 501-375-8131; http://www.thepoultryfederat ion.com.

SEP 9-13 — IEC MARKETING & PRODUCTION CONF., London, England. Contact: International Egg Commission, Second Floor, 89

Charterhouse St., London EC1M 6HR, England. Ph: 44-020-7490-3493; [email protected]; http://www.internationalegg.com.

SEP 12-14 — AFIA LIQUID FEED SYMPM., Grand Hyatt, Denver, Colo. Contact: American Feed Industry Association, 2101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 916. Arlington, Va. 22201. Ph: 703-524-0810; [email protected]; http://www.afia.org.

SEP 13-14 — CPF ANNUAL MTNG. & CONF., Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, Calif. Contact: California Poultry Federation, 4640 Spyres Way, Suite 4, Modesto, Calif. 95356. Ph: 209-576-6355; [email protected]; http://www.cpif.org.

SEP 13-16 MPA ANNUAL CONV., Hilton Sandestin Beach Hotel, Destin, Fla. Contact: Mississippi Poultry Association, 110 Airport Road, Suite C, Pearl, Miss. 39208. Ph: 601-932-7560; beard!mspoultry.org.

SEP 17-19 — NAT’L. MTNG. POULTRY HEALTH & PROCESSING, Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel, Ocean City, Md. Contact: Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc., 16686 County Seat Hwy., Georgetown, Del. 19947-4881. Ph: 302-856-9037; [email protected]; http://www.dpichicken.org.

SEP 21-22 — PF TURKEY COMMITTEE

MTNG. Contact: Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 1446, Little Rock, Ark. 72203. Ph: 501-375-8131; http://www.thepoultryfederat ion.com.

SEP 15-16 — POULTRY PRODUCTION & HEALTH SMNR., The Wynfrey Hotel, Birmingham, Ala. Contact: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, 1530 Cooledge Road, Tucker, Ga. 30084-7303, Ph: 770-493-9401; [email protected]; http://www.uspoultry.org,

OCT 3-4 — PF PROCESSORS WKSHP. Contact: Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 1446, Little Rock, Ark. 72203. Ph: 501-375-8131; http://www.thepoultryfederat ion.com.

OCT 4-5 — POULTRY PROTEIN & FAT SMNR., Doubletree Hotel, Nashville, Tenn. Contact: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, 1530 Cooledge Road, Tucker, Ga. 30084-7303, Ph: 770-493-9401; [email protected]; http://www.uspoultry.org,

OCT 4-7 — NPFDA FALL MTNG., San Diego, Calif. National Poultry & Food Distributors Association, 2014 Osborne Road, St. Marys, Ga. 31558, 770-535-9901, [email protected], http://www.npfda.org.


Groups join coalition to appeal NFPA amendmentsTUCKER, Ga. — The U.S. Poul-

try & Egg Association, National Chicken Council, National Turkey Federation and United Egg Pro-ducers joined a coalition of animal agriculture industry groups in ap-pealing the June 14, 2012, decision of the National Fire Protection As-sociation (NFPA) to amend its 150 Standard for Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities.

The existing standard requires automatic fire sprinkler and smoke control systems for housing facili-ties containing Category A animals — those animals that pose a poten-tial risk to the health or safety of res-

cuers or the general public, such as dangerous zoo animals.

Poultry housesThe NFPA amendment would

require the installation of sprinkler and smoke control systems in ani-mal housing facilities for Category B animals — defined as all animals not included in Category A — which would expand the standard to in-clude poultry barns.

In a move that the coalition members believe failed to meet ap-plicable due process standards and did not consider the biosecurity or

the financial impact of the decision, NFPA’s full Technical Committee adopted a floor motion to amend the NFPA 150 standard. The floor motion vote was approved despite an opposing position taken by the Technical Committee on Ani-mal Housing Facilities, the group charged with evaluating the pro-posed amendment. The decision expands the requirement for sprin-kler and smoke control systems in animal housing facilities from just those holding Category A animals, to also include facilities housing Category B animals. This substan-tial expansion therefore covers far

more animal housing facilities than had been previously covered, ex-panding NFPA 150 to cover nearly every single livestock farm in the U.S.

NFPA standards typically do not have the full effect of law but are of-ten adopted in local and state build-ing codes and by insurance compa-nies and may become requirements to receive occupancy permits or purchase insurance.

A copy of the appeal letter may be found at http://www.uspoultry.org/positionpapers/docs/20120709-mf-Animal%20Agriculture%20NFPA%20Appeal.pdf

Organizations participating in the appeal include: US Poultry and Egg Association, National Chicken Council, National Turkey Federa-tion, United Egg Producers, National Pork Producers Council, American Farm Bureau Federation, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, National Cattlemen’s Beef Associa-tion, National Milk Producers Fed-eration, Dairy Farmers of America, Dairylea Cooperative, Upstate Ni-agara Cooperative, Select Milk Pro-ducers, Agri-Mark Inc., St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, Northeast Dairy Farmers Cooperatives, Idaho Dairymen’s Association.

EPA drops proposed livestock farm reporting rule WASHINGTON — The U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency won’t adopt a proposed rule that would have required large livestock farms to report information about their operations.

The EPA announced late July 13 that it instead would collect informa-tion on concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, from other state, local and federal sources.

Poultry industry groups signaled its satisfaction in response to the EPA action.

In a statement from the National Chicken Council, National Turkey

Federation and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, the three groups said, “The poultry industry is pleased that EPA recognized the burden the proposed rule would place on the industry. Furthermore, the poultry industry appreciates that the agency heard the concerns voiced by indus-try during the comment period and accepted the recommendation to collect this information from exist-ing sources.”

The previous ruling would have required CAFOs to submit infor-mation to the agency regardless of whether or not they discharge to a

water of the U.S. The rule would have required CAFOs to provide detailed location information and farm demographics for virtually every family farm engaged in the production of commercial poultry and egg products in the U.S.

The 2011 proposed rule was in response to a settlement agree-ment reached with environmental petitioners in 2010, which required EPA to take final action by July 13, 2012.

The poultry industry groups noted that in announcing the final action, the agency pointed out that

although collecting CAFO infor-mation is important, the agency believes an efficient approach that does not duplicate efforts is the ap-propriate next step.

EPA will collect CAFO infor-mation using existing sources of information, including state Na-tional Pollutant Discharge Elimi-nation System (NPDES) programs and other programs at the federal, state and local level to help ensure CAFOs are implementing practices

that protect water quality.The poultry groups had submit-

ted comments on the EPA’s report-ing rule for CAFOs in January. Their comments can be viewed at http://www.uspoultry.org/position-papers/docs/Poultry%20Industry%20Comments%20-%20EPAs%20CAFO%20Information%20Collection%20Rule.pdf

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Thousands of birds die in Va. from power outageThe Associated Press

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Hun-dreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys have died in Virginia after some recent storms snuffed power.

The poultry died from extreme heat after the storm cut power to fans that cool chicken and turkey houses.

Most of the poultry losses oc-curred in the Shenandoah Valley,

but producers in other parts of the state such as Southside also reported the death of birds, said Hobey Bau-han, president of the Virginia Poul-try Federation.

High temperatures have contin-ued and officials warned people to protect themselves from the heat as well as look after others who might need assistance.

Health officials warned people who have been without power for

an extended period — and haven’t made other arrangements to keep food at or below 41 degrees F — to throw out food from their refrigera-tor and freezer because of spoilage.

Shelters, cooling centers and emergency operations centers re-mained open statewide for those who need relief from the heat.

The University of Virginia opened its recreation centers so area residents could use its showers.

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Three new PSA Fellows announced at annual meetingATHENS, Ga. — The Poultry Science As-

sociation has named three new members to the organization’s body of Fellows.

They are:Dr. Vern L. Christensen, North Carolina

State University.Dr. Wayne J. Kuenzel, University of Ar-

kansas. Dr. Lawrence M. Potter, Virginia Tech

University.The three were recognized at the PSA re-

cent annual meeting held in Athens and hosted by the University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science.

“According to PSA’s constitution and by-laws, no more than five PSA members may be named Fellows at any given annual meeting. This year we will be naming three outstanding scientists as Fellows,” said PSA President Dr. Michael Wineland, a professor of poultry sci-ence at North Carolina State University.

The title of ‘Fellow’ is awarded “for profes-

sional distinction and contributions to the field of poultry science without regard to longev-ity.”

The PSA also recognized the winners of almost two dozen other honors and awards. They are:

American Egg Board Research Award, Dr. Darin C. Bennett, University of British Columbia.

American Feed Industry Association Poultry Nutrition Research Award , Dr. Wil-liam A. Dozier III, Auburn University.

American Poultry Historical Society Award, Dr. Greg F. Mathis, Southern Poultry Research, Inc.

Embrex Fundamental Science Award, Dr. Tom E. Porter, University of Maryland

Evonik Degussa Award for Achieve-ment in Poultry Science, Dr. Hans H. Cheng, USDA/ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, East Lansing, Mich.

The Frank Perdue Live Poultry Food

Safety Award, R. Jeff Buhr, USDA/ARS Rus-sell Research Center, Athens, Ga.

Hy-Line International Research Award, Dr. Ramesh Selvaraj, The Ohio State Univer-sity.

Merial Distinguished Poultry Industry Career Award, Dr. Henry M. Engster, Perdue Farms Inc.

National Chicken Council Broiler Re-search Award, Dr. Olayiwola Adeola, Purdue University.

National Turkey Federation Research Award, Dr. Kent M. Reed, University of Min-nesota).

Novus International Teaching Award, Dr. Christopher D. McDaniel,, Mississippi State University.

Phibro Extension Award, Dr. Morgan B. Farnell, Texas A&M University.

Poultry Welfare Research Award, Dr. Kenneth E. Anderson, North Carolina State University.

PSA Early Achievement Award for Extension, Dr. Brigid A. McCrea, Delaware State Uni-versity.

PSA Early Achievement Award for Industry, Dr. Hilary O.

Pavlidis, Cobb Vantress Inc.PSA Early Achievement Award for Re-

search, Dr. Kristen J. Navara, University of Georgia.

PSA Early Achievement Award for Teaching, Dr. Jacquelyn B. Golden, North Carolina State University.

Tyson Foods Support Personnel Award, Dale T. Hyatt, Texas A&M University.

PSA Honorary Membership, Abit Massey, Georgia Poultry Federation.

Student awards were also presented. They were the Alltech Student Research Manu-script Award to Samuel J. Rochell, Auburn University; the Maurice Stein Fellowship Award to Laura J. Bauermeister, Auburn Uni-versity; and the Jones-Hamilton Co. Gradu-ate Student Travel Grant Award to Farid Saber Nassar, Cairo University; Alamanda Calvert, University of Minnesota; and Manuel Joao Goncalves Da Costa, North Carolina State University.

PSA will hold it 2013 annual meeting on July 21-25 at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.

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USRBC President and CEO Ed-ward Verona applauded the GOP let-ter, saying, “We are delighted to see a record number of House Republi-can freshmen demonstrating leader-ship on an issue that seeks to sustain U.S. competitiveness in a growing market. Russia, the ninth largest economy in the world, is poised to become a WTO member in a mat-ter of weeks, and U.S. manufactur-ers, service providers, farmers and their workers should have access to the same economic reforms and market-opening measures that their foreign competitors will as part of Russia’s WTO accession.

“We urge President Obama and congressional leadership to work together to see through enactment of PNTR by the August recess.”

NCCMike Brown, president of the

National Chicken Council, which is a member of the coalition, echoed Verona’s appreciation for the House members’ effort.

“As Russia enters into the WTO later this summer, PNTR will ensure that poultry companies can take full advantage of new business oppor-tunities, that Russia’s commitments entering the WTO are enforced and that American businesses are on an equal playing field in the Russian market,” Brown said.

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USDA releases first container shipping report for ocean cargo

OAKLAND, Calif. — U.S. agriculture exporters now have a new tool to track container equip-ment availability at key locations nationwide, to assist them in plan-ning their shipments to Asia.

USDA has released its first Ocean Shipping Container Avail-ability Report (OSCAR), utilizing data provided by 10 major global container lines in the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agree-ment (WTSA).

Going forward, OSCAR will provide freight shippers with a weekly snapshot of current equip-ment availability at 18 inland in-termodal load points, in the form of aggregate net surplus or deficit totals for the participating carriers. It will also forecast likely avail-ability at each location two weeks out, based on advance carrier bookings.

The report is now available on USDA’s website at www.ams.usda.gov/oscar.

OSCAR“OSCAR represents a model in-

dustry-government collaboration, bringing added transparency to the export supply chain,” said WTSA Executive Administrator Brian M. Conrad. “Putting the right data col-lection and reporting processes in place has required persistence and hard work by both ocean carriers and USDA, and WTSA lines ap-preciate the critical leadership role USDA has played in launching this valuable pilot project.”

Tracking and managing con-tainer equipment has been an ongoing operational challenge in heavily imbalanced trade lanes such as the transpacific, Conrad noted.

U.S. agricultural exporters, with their specialized geographic and commodity characteristics, have

been among the most severely im-pacted.

The joint USDA/WTSA pilot project is an outgrowth of discus-sions begun in 2010, amid severe space equipment shortages in the transpacific trade as Asia-U.S. im-port demand suddenly spiked, and ships idled in the global downturn returned to service.

Most Asian container produc-tion capacity had closed down by that point, leaving carriers scram-bling to locate and deploy scarce container equipment, and to quickly reposition empty contain-ers back to Asia once they had been unloaded.

This often left U.S. exporters short of vessel space and equip-ment to get their products to mar-ket, even as export demand in Asia was strengthening.

Asian freightAgriculture exporters face par-

ticular equipment challenges in the U.S.-Asia freight market, where they account for about 20 percent of total waterborne shipments.

Many products are perishable, with short lead times to market; shippers need equipment in rural areas far from where import con-tainers are unloaded and stored; heavier agricultural cargoes gen-erate demand for more equipment because containers reach their weight limits before they are fully loaded; and a historic 2-to-1 ratio of higher-value import traffic ver-sus return export loads forces ex-port shippers to compete for vessel space with empty containers being repositioned to Asia.

Finally, shippers of farm prod-ucts are dependent on specialized refrigerated and temperature-controlled equipment that are not widely used from Asia to the U.S.

Conrad emphasized that OS-CAR is not intended to create an exchange where specific, named carriers advertise surplus contain-ers in a particular location and are put in touch with customers.

Individual carrier data is col-lected by WTSA and submitted in aggregate to USDA, anonymously, for posting in weekly reports. “The main purpose behind OSCAR is to provide visibility into how equip-ment flows tradewide on a week-to-week and seasonal basis, so that exporters are able to work with their carriers to access contain-ers in the most efficient way pos-sible.”

SurplusIn its current form the report

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“Surplus or deficit data attrib-uted to a specific carrier can easily be misinterpreted,” Conrad ex-plained. “Surplus containers on a given day might be pre-allocated to other customers or trades; a deficit in the same location might simply reflect priorities based on a carrier’s cargo mix, customer base or inland terminal arrangements.

“There are many underlying factors affecting a carrier’s equip-ment situation from week to week, and we wanted to ensure that these would not compromise the report’s value as a planning and reference tool.”

WTSA is a voluntary discus-sion and research forum of ocean and intermodal container shipping lines serving the trade from ports and inland points in the U.S. to des-tinations throughout Asia.

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Industry Stock ReportThe following chart provides an annual high and a comparison of recent activity of major poultry company stocks.

Company Annual High Jul. 18 Jul. 24

Cal-Maine 42.40 36.34 35.24Campbell Soup 34.58 33.26 32.52ConAgra 27.34 24.77 23.81Hormel 30.70 28.80 27.91Pilgrim’s Pride 8.68 5.10 4.76Sanderson Farms 55.87 38.09 37.17Seaboard 2705.00 2203.00 2153.38Tyson 21.06 15.67 14.78

(Courtesy: A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.) Turkey MarketsWeighted avg. prices for frozen whole young turkeysWeighted average (cents/lb.) F.O.B. shipper dock

National Week ending Jul. 20 Last yearHens (8-16 lbs.) 106.50 104.00Toms (16-24 lbs.) 107.00 105.50

Week ending Jul. 13 Jun. avg.Hens (8-16 lbs.) 106.10 106.00Toms (16-24 lbs.) 106.50 106.51

Nat’l. Broiler Market:(Jul. 24): Whole broiler prices are trending barely steady to weak in the Midwest, steady elsewhere. Offerings cover the full range but

are mostly moderate for current trade needs. Retail demand was light to good, mostly light to moder-ate. Foodservice demand was light to moderate with buyers purchasing product as needed. Floor stocks were moderate. Market activity was

slow to moderate. In the parts struc-ture, movement was light to moder-ate as the hot and humid weather conditions hampers much of the Northeast. Prices were trending firm to higher for tenders, steady to firm for wings, steady to instances weak for breast items and steady for the dark meat items. Offerings were light for tenders, light to moderate for wings, and available for breast items and dark meat cuts. Market activity for parts was slow to mod-erate. In production areas, live sup-plies were moderate at mixed, but mostly desirable weights.

Fowl:Jul. 20: Live spent heavy fowlFinal prices at Farm Buyer Loading (per pound): range 9½-21¢

Parts:Georgia: The f.o.b. dock quoted prices on ice-pack parts based on truckload and pool truckload lots for the week of Jul. 23: line run ten-ders $2.10; skinless/boneless breasts $1.60; whole breasts $1.02; bone-less/skinless thigh meat $1.32½; thighs 74½¢; drumsticks 74¢; leg quarters 51¢; wings $1.87½.

National Slaughter:Broiler: Estimated slaugh-ter for week ending Jul. 21 is 164,620,000.Actual slaughter for the week end-ing Jul. 14 was 157,299,000.Heavy-type hen: Estimated slaugh-ter for the week ending Jul. 21 is 1,739,000.

Actual slaughter for the week end-ing Jul. 14 was 1,957,000.Light-type hen: Estimated slaugh-ter for the week ending Jul. 21 is 1,407,000. Actual slaughter for the week ending Jul. 14 was 1,479,000. Total: Week of Jul. 21: 167,766,000. Week of Jul. 14: 160,735,000.

Estimates:

The estimated number of broiler-fryers available for slaughter the week ending Jul. 21 is 157.1 million head, compared to 162.4 million head slaughtered the same week last year. For the week of Jul. 28, the estimated available is 157.5 million head, notes the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, Poultry Programs.

Grain PricesOHIO COUNTRY ELEV. Jul. 10 Jul. 17 Jul. 24 No. 2 Yellow Corn/bu. $7.52 $7.92 $8.29Soybeans/bu. $15.83 $16.26 $16.52(Courtesy: Prospect Farmers Exchange, Prospect, Ohio)

Broiler/Fryer MarketsUSDA Composite Weighted Average

For week of: Jul. 23 81.89¢For week of: Jul. 16 83.92¢ Chi.-Del.-Ga.-L.A.-Miss.-N.Y.--S.F.-South. StatesFor delivery week of: Jul. 9 Jul. 23 Chicago majority 72--81¢ 65--81¢Mississippi majority 82--86¢ 82--86¢ New York majority 80--83¢ 80--83¢ For delivery week of: Jul. 10 Jul. 24Delmarva weighted average 62¢--$1.03 72¢--$1.01Georgia f.o.b. dock offering 94.75¢ 94.75¢Los Angeles majority price $1.04 $1.04San Francisco majority price $1.04½ $1.04½ Southern States f.o.b. average 64.12¢ 64.54¢

Broiler Eggs Set/Chicks Placed in 19 States EGGS SET (Thousands) CHICKS PLACED (Thousands)

AlaArkCa,Tn,WvDelFlaGaKyLaMdMissMo.N.C.OklaPaS.C.TexVa

19 StatesTotalPrev. year% Prev. yr.

Jun. 23

28,06820,87010,9743,5571,35331,9826,9603,3037,45617,9387,19619,6626,4733,6515,29914,5466,219

195,507198,340

99

Jun. 30

27,84620,97611,1183,5701,35231,6977,4183,4407,40117,8237,77419,5596,5503,6005,55914,2536,340

196,276197,158

100

Jul. 7

27,26520,38710,7153,3711,35332,5397,4503,1347,04517,5047,38819,8256,7983,6165,30614,1396,101

193,936194,961

99

Jul. 14

27,94619,74210,6013,2951,35232,4717,7433,4097,35118,0638,06819,8166,4653,7315,29814,5875,919

195,857196,576

100

Jun. 23

20,41919,95010,7355,0031,05828,0256,2693,3276,16415,4325,72716,3224,7493,0924,80312,1554,526

167,756168,554

100

Jun. 30

20,80619,7789,5193,7871,07927,1876,5363,0666,94715,5205,95215,4854,7763,0145,07712,3124,900

165,741168,718

98

Jul. 7

19,94120,38111,8494,7201,23426,5755,9292,9135,71614,9155,11115,8444,2483,0204,83112,1294,294

163,650165,957

99

Jul. 14

20,30419,20911,1894,9891,16826,8095,6042,9615,58215,4875,06415,7144,3433,0284,52412,1554,712

162,842164,445

991/Current week as percent of same week last year.

Egg MarketsUSDA quotationsNew York cartoned del. store-door: Jul. 17 Jul. 24Extra large, up 27¢ $1.17--$1.21 $1.44--$1.48 Large, up 27¢ $1.15--$1.19 $1.42--$1.46 Medium, up 23¢ 86--90¢ $1.09--$1.13Southeast Regional del. warehouse: Jul. 17 Jul. 24Extra large, up 9¢ $1.01--$1.15 $1.10--$1.42Large, up 9¢ 97¢--$1.08 $1.06--$1.32Medium, up 6¢ 68½--76¢ 74½¢--$1.01

MarketsCompiled by David B. Strickland, Editor

[email protected]

USDA Shell EggsAMS weekly combined region shell egg pricesAverage prices on sales to volume buyers, Grade A or better, White

eggs in cartons, delivered warehouse, cents per dozen.Jul. 20 Extra Large Large MediumRegions: Northeast 109.50 102.00 71.00Southeast 105.50 103.50 71.00Midwest 98.50 96.50 66.50South Central 115.50 106.50 72.50Combined 107.65 102.31 70.34Computed from simple weekly averages weighted by regional area popula-tions


Food pathogen genome database to be createdWASHINGTON — The U.S.

Food & Drug Administration, the University of California-Davis, Agilent Technologies Inc. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced a col-laboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen ge-nomes to help speed identification of bacteria responsible for food-borne outbreaks.

The database will provide a roadmap for development of tests to identify pathogens and provide information about the origin of the pathogen. The tests have the po-tential to significantly reduce the typical public health response time in outbreaks of foodborne illness to days instead of weeks.

Open access to the database will allow researchers to develop tests that can identify the type of bacteria present in a sample within a matter of days or hours, significantly faster than the approximately one week it now takes between diagnosis and genetic analysis.

Conceived by UC Davis, Agilent and FDA and called “The 100K Genome Project,” the collabora-tion will be a five-year effort to sequence the genetic code of ap-proximately 100,000 important foodborne pathogens and make this information available in a free, pub-lic database. The sequencing will include the genomes of important

foodborne pathogens such as sal-monella, listeria, and E. coli.

“This important project will har-ness the cutting-edge technology of genome sequencing to advance our understanding of and response to foodborne outbreaks,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg. “FDA is pleased to contribute scientific and technical expertise necessary to create and maintain this foodborne pathogen database which will be fully acces-sible and have long-lasting impact on protecting public health.”

The FDA is providing more than 500 already completed salmonella whole-genome draft sequences, thousands of additional important food pathogen strains for sequenc-ing and bioinformatic support. FDA scientists also will participate in guiding the project and providing technical assistance when needed.

Agilent is providing scientific ex-pertise, instrumentation and funding to support a portion of UC Davis ac-tivities.

Foodborne illness“Each year in the United States

there are more than 48 million cases of foodborne illness,” said Mike McMullen, president of Agilent’s Chemical Analysis Group. “A prob-lem of this magnitude demands an equally large countermeasure. We see this project as a way to improve quality of life for a great many

people, while minimizing a major business risk for food producers and distributors.”

With the goal of making the food supply safer for consumers, the new database will significantly speed testing of raw ingredients, finished products and environmental sam-ples taken during investigation of foodborne illness outbreaks. This type of information also enables scientists to make new discoveries that drive the development of new methods to control disease-causing bacteria in the food chain.

The CDC will provide its food-borne disease expertise, strains to be sequenced and other information for use in the project. CDC experts will also serve on the steering committee for the project.

“Protecting the American popu-lation from foodborne illness is a public health priority and requires the combined efforts of public and private partners,” said Dr. Beth Bell, director of CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infec-tious Diseases. “We welcome the opportunity to join in an initiative that shows promise for advanc-ing our technological capacity for foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak response.”

Identifying the pathogens re-sponsible for foodborne illnesses and outbreaks is only one part of the public health response. Food safety officials still need to be able to de-

termine which food or ingredient is contaminated and where it came from. This can be a challenge, espe-cially when multi-ingredient foods are involved or the same ingredient is sourced from multiple suppliers around the world.

Pinpoint a sourceWhen used as part of an overall

surveillance and outbreak investiga-tion system, the genetic information in the new database, in combination with geographic information about the pathogens, will help public health officials more quickly pinpoint the source of contamination responsible for a foodborne outbreak.

USDA’s Food Safety & Inspec-tion Service will also collaborate on the project. “This initiative shows great promise as we look to improve our ability to identify and track down potential sources of foodborne outbreaks,” said USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety Dr. Elisabeth Hagen.

“FSIS intends to submit important bacterial strains from our regula-tory testing program for sequencing at UC Davis, and we look forward to the benefits this public database could provide federal, state and lo-cal public health agencies,” Hagen

said. The genomic sequencing will be coordinated by UC Davis, which is also providing access to its col-lection of bacteria samples. The se-quencing will be done at the newly formed BGI@UC Davis genome sequencing facility.

“This landmark project harnesses UC Davis’ partnership with BGI, a world leader in genomics, to mine information about the most deadly foodborne pathogens,” said Harris Lewin, vice chancellor for research at UC Davis. “It will revolutionize our basic understanding of these dis-ease-causing microorganisms.”

As sequences are completed they will be stored in the National Insti-tutes of Health’s National Center for Biotechnology Information’s public database.

As part of its efforts for the col-laboration, UC Davis is currently forming a consortium to support the 100K Genome Project. The consor-tium participants will draw from a variety of stakeholders including federal, state and local public health laboratories, food manufacturers, industries and academic organiza-tions. Organizations interested in joining the collaboration can con-tact Bart Weimer, the UC Davis program director, at [email protected].

Bird flu kills 8-year-old girl in IndonesiaThe Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia — An 8-year-old girl has died of avian in-fluenza in Indonesia’s eighth death from the disease this year.

The Health Ministry said the girl, from the West Java district of Karawang, died July 3 in a Jakarta

hospital that had treated her since June 28.

She first developed a fever June 18, one day before going on holiday to Singapore, where a doctor diag-nosed her with laryngitis, the minis-try said on July 6 on its website.

She returned five days later and was treated at a Karawang hospital

before being transferred to Jakarta.The ministry says the girl might

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Bird flu has killed more than 350 people worldwide.

Indonesia accounts for 158 of the deaths.

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AFIA, C-FARE release study on future grain patterns Adds comments to FDA proposals

ARLINGTON, Va. — Today, feed costs account for 50 percent to 70 percent of livestock and poultry production.

What factors are driving these costs and how are scarce resources for food, feed and fuel going to be allocated in the future as we struggle to feed a growing population?

These questions and more are an-swered in a landmark study report-ing on the factors impacting current feed costs.

On July 17, the report Future Pat-terns of U.S. Feed Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding was presented by American Feed Industry Association President and CEO Joel G. Newman at the Fed-eration of Animal Sciences sympo-sium.

The project was financed by the Institute for Feed Education & Research (IFEEDER) on behalf of AFIA and the Council on Food, Ag-ricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE).

The analysis includes an eco-nomic outlook of how industry profitability, production efficiency, and demand will be impacted as it pertains to U.S. feed grains and live-stock and poultry feeding.

Along with the key driving fac-tors of future livestock and poul-try industries, this study outlines variables and potential effects, ad-dresses questions not answered, and covers short medium and long term horizons.

According to the report, the three main factors impacting feed avail-ability and cost are biofuels, global demand, specific exports and annual crop yields.

“The U.S. livestock and poultry industries are working under sig-nificantly different dynamics than they were just five or 10 years ago,” Newman said. “This changing en-

vironment will not slow up in the coming years.”

In the short-term, feed availability should improve, provided weather doesn’t impact grain production sig-nificantly.

Beyond the short-term, the live-stock and poultry industries need to keep an eye on things such as China’s de-mand for not only corn and soybeans but ul t imately, meat, milk and eggs; the development of biobutanol; and potential growth in production of de-oiled dis-tillers grains.

“The U.S. agriculture and food system is the envy of the world,” Newman said. “We are the technol-ogy leaders and need to continue to be — this is the key to success of feeding the growing population by 2050 — the use of and acceptance of technology to feed more people using fewer natural resources.”

Dr. Robert Wisner, retired univer-sity professor emeritus, Department of Economics, Iowa State Univer-sity, was the principal investigator for the study.

The full report can be obtained at www.afia.org.

FDA commentsAFIA and National Grain and

Feed Association (NGFA) have submitted a joint statement to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration on a draft text of proposed regula-tions that would expand the appli-cation of the veterinary feed direc-tive (VFD) to encompass a broader group of currently approved animal drugs intended for food-producing animals that the agency believes are medically important in treating hu-man illness.

AFIA and NGFA noted that they commend FDA for incorporating many of their previously submitted recommendations into the draft text for proposed regulations, which the two organizations believe would make substantial and meaningful improvements to the VFD process if retained in final regulations.

The AFIA and NGFA for several years have advocated improvements to the VFD process because medi-cated feed manufacturers who use existing VFD animal drugs already bear the primary regulatory burden associated with administering these drugs, the groups noted.

This regulatory burden is substan-tial, both in terms of time and cost, with feed mills being the focal point for inspection when regulatory offi-cials seek to determine compliance with the VFD regulations.

“Given FDA’s decision to expand the use of the VFD process to en-compass many currently approved animal drugs, feed manufactur-ers will experience a significant increase in paperwork burdens and regulatory compliance costs if long-overdue improvements are not made,” according to AFIA and NGFA’s joint statement.

The groups added, “We believe it is essential to modify the VFD pro-cess to make it as efficient and cost-effective as possible, while retaining prudent regulatory control to foster animal and human health.”

In their joint statement, the NGFA and AFIA emphasized:

The need for FDA to make sci-ence-based decisions when deter-mining whether to transition exist-ing, already-approved animal drugs to VFD status, limited solely to those products that truly have significant importance to human medicine.

FDA should mandate that veterinarians undertake and pass a training program — preferably available electronically — before being authorized to issue a lawful VFD. The organizations said they

believe this will eliminate confusion and errors that have occurred within the existing VFD process.

Support for creating a list of VFD-trained veterinarians to be made available on a publicly ac-cessible website hosted by a profes-sional society or by FDA itself.

Concurrence with many other animal health, livestock and poultry organizations that there is a short-age of veterinarians that could create a significant, and perhaps insurmountable, obstacle in many geographic areas that would limit the availability of VFDs and thus adversely affect animal health.

The NGFA and AFIA also reiter-ated comments they provided earlier to the agency that would improve the information collected on the VFD form itself to be more appropriate and relevant to the manufacturing of medicated feed.

These recommendations included eliminating the requirement that the VFD form contain a specific quan-tity of feed to be manufactured per order, which can vary based upon weather and other factors that affect feed consumption by animals.

AFIA and NGFA said that other information already required on the VFD form, such as the duration of treatment, level of animal drug al-lowed in the feed, feeding directions and expiration date, already provide sufficient information so that the ap-propriate quantity of feed is manu-factured, distributed and fed to the target animals.

The NGFA and AFIA also sup-ported FDA’s intention to retain the current requirement that the VFD form contain a statement prohibit-ing extra-label use of medicated feed manufactured under a VFD order.

FSMAAlso, on July 10, AFIA submitted

comments to the docket to the FDA regarding the agency’s information

collection activities as related to upcoming Food Safety M o d e r n -ization Act ( F S M A ) implemen-tation.

“ A F I A supports a strong ap-proach to FSMA training, compli-ance and enforcement, one that is clear to the regulated industry and allows innovation and different ap-proaches to achieve the same goals in the new law,” said Richard Sell-ers, AFIA’s vice president of feed control and nutrition.

“AFIA believes much of the in-formation FDA is requesting is necessary for the agency to collect . . . (but) there are some areas of con-cern both in terms of the burden on facilities to gather the information and the ability of FDA to protect this information as confidential,” Sellers added.

The comments explained that many AFIA members consider their quality assurance programs and food safety plans as proprietary and confidential.

AFIA reiterated to FDA that for companies to provide this type of in-formation to FDA means companies need a clear protection from disclo-sure to the public.

Regarding the submission of haz-ards associated for each products and the preventive controls offers little to no value to determine the level of risk for a specific facility.

Sellers explained, “AFIA believes that preventive control programs are facility specific and should be re-viewed at individual facilities. With over 1,000 ingredients used in feed, the hazards can be numerous.”

More information can be obtained from AFIA at www.afia.org; e-mail: [email protected]; Ph: 703-524-0810.

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W.Va. farmer sues EPA over pollution orderThe Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A West Virginia chicken farmer is su-ing the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency to stop it from impos-ing wastewater rules on her farm as part of a multi-state effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.

Lois Alt, owner of Eight is Enough farms in Hardy County in the state’s Eastern Panhandle, argues the EPA has overstepped its authority by or-dering her to stop polluting streams and obtain discharge permits under the federal Clean Water Act.

Alt says any waste-tainted runoff is agricultural storm water, not “pro-cess wastewater,” and that means it’s not subject to regulation under

the Clean Water Act. “The only water that runs off the

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The complaint, filed in U.S. Dis-trict Court in Elkins, asks the EPA’s order to be set aside.

Alt could face civil penalties of up to $37,500 a day if found in viola-tion of what she calls an arbitrary, capricious and illegal action.

The EPA’s order last fall said that dust, feathers and fine particles of dander and manure from Alt’s poul-try house ventilation fans could land on the ground, come into con-tact with stormwater and flow into ditches, eventually reaching Chesa-

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EPA also issued similar orders at three other farms in Hardy and Pendleton counties last fall follow-ing inspections at five chicken and turkey operations.

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“Where am I going to get that from? You have concerns about it every morning when you wake up,” said Brummer, who farms near Waltonville. “The drought is bad, but that’s just half of the problem on this farm.”

Around a third of the nation’s corn crop has been hurt, with some of it so badly damaged that farmers have already cut down their with-ered plants to feed to cattle. As of July 15, the USDA said, 38 percent of the corn crop was in poor or very poor condition, compared with 30 percent a week earlier.

“This is definitely the epicenter — right in the heart of the Midwest,” said climatologist Mark Svoboda with the Nebraska-based National Drought Mitigation Center.

It’s all a huge comedown for farmers who had expected a record year when they sowed 96.4 million acres in corn, the most since 1937. USDA initially predicted national average corn yields of 166 bushels per acre this year.

The agency has revised that pro-jection down to 146, and more re-ductions are possible if conditions don’t improve.

The lower projection is still an im-provement over the average yields of around 129 bushels a decade ago. But already tight supplies and fears that the drought will get worse be-fore it gets better have been pushing up grain prices, which are likely to translate into higher food prices for consumers, particularly for meat and poultry.

The July 16 report was based on data going back to 1895 called the Palmer Drought Index. It feeds into the widely watched and more de-tailed U.S. Drought Monitor, which reported earlier that 61 percent of the continental U.S. was in a mod-erate to exceptional drought. How-ever, the weekly Drought Monitor goes back only 12 years, so clima-tologists use the Palmer Drought In-dex for comparing droughts before 2000.

Climatologists have labeled this year’s dry spell a “flash drought” because it developed in a matter of months, not over multiple seasons or years.

The current drought is similar to the droughts of the 1950s, which weren’t as intense as those of the 1930s, said Jake Crouch, a clima-tologist with the National Climatic Data Center. And farming has changed a lot since the Dust Bowl era. Better soil conservation has re-duced erosion, and modern hybrids are much more resistant to drought.

But Crouch said it’s important to understand that this drought is still unfolding.

“We can’t say with certainty how long this might last now. Now that we’re going up against the two largest droughts in history, that’s something to be wary of,” Crouch said. “The coming months are really going to be the determining factor of how big a drought it ends up be-ing.”

In northwest Kansas, Brian Baal-man’s cattle pastures have dried up, along with probably half of his corn crop. He desperately needs some rain to save the rest of it, and he’s worried what will happen if the drought lingers into next year.

“I have never seen this type of weather before like this. A lot of old timers haven’t either,” Baalman

said. “I just think we are seeing his-tory in the making.”

The federal government is al-ready moving to help farmers and ranchers.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced plans for streamlining the aid process. A major goal is to cut the time it takes to declare an agricultural disaster area. He also reduced interest rates for emergency loans and made it cheaper for farmers to graze live-stock or cut hay on lands otherwise locked up in a conservation pro-gram.

Some state governments are stepping in, too. In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency in 42 counties to speed up the issuance of permits for tem-porarily using stream or lake water for irrigation.

During a visit to a southern Illinois corn and soybean farm, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced that drought-affected farmers would be eligible for state debt restructuring and loan programs in addition to the aid the USDA announced.

Quinn ventured into a corn field where he spent some time looking for an actual ear of corn. When he

found one and peeled off the husk, there were no kernels.

Two-thirds of Illinois is in what’s classified as a severe drought or worse. Neighboring Indiana is even worse, with 70 percent in at least a severe drought.

Brummer could normally count on corn yields of 170 bushels per acre. He expects to get just 10 bush-els this year, if he gets anything at all.

The top of the cornstalks are an unhealthy pale green, he said. Many of them have no ears, and “if there are there are a few kernels, they don’t seem to know if they should die or make a grain.”

Crop insurance will cover up to 150 bushels per acre. But no cov-erage is available for Brummer’s livestock, so he figures he’ll lose $350,000 to $400,000 on that side of the operation.

Not long ago, Brummer rejoiced along with countless other Midwest growers about getting their crops in the ground early.

“It looked really good until about a month ago,” he said. “Then the concerns started, and it’s been downhill ever since.”

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Administration seeks drought help from CongressThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has called on Con-gress to assist farmers suffering from the worst drought in 25 years. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said three-fifths of the U.S. land mass and much of the country’s corn and soybean crops have been affected by the lack of rain.

Vilsack met with President Barack Obama on July 18 to discuss a response to the disaster. Vilsack said farmers need Congress to pass a five-year $500 billion farm and nutrition bill that is awaiting action in the House of Representatives or at least approve additional disaster programs or provide more flexibil-ity in the availability of credit.

The administration has declared drought disasters in one third of the counties in the country, making them eligible for assistance such as low interest loans.

Vilsack cautioned consumers about potential price gouging in the short-term, saying any increase in retail costs would likely come late this year and next year. In fact, he said, the price of beef, chicken and poultry could well go down in the short term as producers reduce their stocks in the face of higher feed costs. Vilsack also said that despite the drought, corn crops are on track to having the third best corn crop in U.S. history.

“If in fact people are beginning see food price increases now, it is not in any way shape or form related to the

drought and we should be very care-ful to keep an eye on that to make sure that people don not take advan-tage of a very difficult and painful situation,” Vilsack said.

The farm bill passed the Senate and cleared the House Agriculture Committee on a bipartisan vote. As of July 18, House Speaker John Boehner has not scheduled a vote on the legislation, but lawmakers repre-senting rural regions were pressing him to accelerate action on the bill. Reps. Kristi Noem, (R-S.D)., and Peter Welch, (D-Vt.), were collect-ing signatures from their colleagues urging passage before the August congressional recess.

Asked about the role of prayer in addressing the drought, Vilsack said “If I had a rain prayer or rain dance I could do, I would do it.”

CDC notes salmonella infectionsATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has re-

ported a total of 144 people infected with salmonella that has been linked to exposure to chicks and ducks from an Ohio hatchery.

The outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Newport and Salmonella Lille have been reported from 26 states. The 21 new cases are from Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia.

Fifty-three (100 percent) of 53 ill persons with available purchase in-formation reported buying chicks and ducklings that were sourced from a single mail-order hatchery.

The CDC said the epidemiologic, laboratory and traceback findings have linked this outbreak of human salmonella infections to exposure to chicks and ducklings from Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Ohio. Ill persons reported pur-chasing live poultry for backyard flocks to produce eggs or meat, or to keep as pets.

The CDC reported that of the 144 ill persons, 32 have been hospitalized. One death has been reported in New York, but the CDC said it is unclear whether the salmonella infection was a factor.

In May, veterinarians from the Ohio Department of Agriculture inspected the mail-order hatchery and made recommendations for improvement.


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issue will highlight Expo Products and Services. This section will be open to exhibiting companies from all segments attending this combined expo — a co-location of the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s International Poultry Expo, the American Feed Industry Association’s International Feed Expo and the American Meat Institute’s International Meat Expo.

More informationCompanies wishing to include product information in any of our product issues can send items by e-mail to:David Strickland, editor, at [email protected] Wellborn, general manager, at [email protected] Poultry Times can be reached at: Ph: 770-536-2476; Fax: 770-532-4894; or mail to P.O. Box 1338, Gainesville,

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The FOODCRAFT Leg Processor with Leg Splitter has been in production for over 20 years and remains the most ef-fective method of removing whole legs from the saddle. Dark oyster yield is still the best in the industry while producing the least amount of rework.

FOODCRAFT is now introducing this same trusted machine technology in a New 2012 version which is electrically powered. This then gives the customer a choice between the original hydrau-lically powered offering and a totally electronic unit.

The use of efficient and reliable servo type motors allows the customer to ad-

just speeds independently and simulta-neously.

The user friendly touch screen control is easily accessible and has a variety of options and information that can be custom designed to meet your particu-lar needs. The touch screen is also avail-able in several different languages.

We can also convert existing hydraulic Leg Processors to electronic, which will allow our customers to remove the po-tential for product contamination from hydraulic oil. It also provides greater flexibility and will eliminate piping, asso-ciated pumps, motors, etc. The ability to remove hydraulics from our customer’s facility should reduce Energy Require-ments which can also be factored into savings.

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The EcodrumTM system is a proven technology, successfully installed on poultry operations throughout North America. The EcodrumTM is perfect for large scale animal production.

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The Ecodrum™ system manages poultry mortality in a cost effective and environmentally sound way. An Ecodrum™ can be sized to accomodate any farm, and can be expanded at any time to meet future requirements.

Most producers report that it takes only 10 to 15 minutes a day to operate, and they are creating a pathogen free compost that can be safely spread on the farm.

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Agrifans cut energy costs and provide benefits all year longInsist on Agrifan. Northwest designed the original agricultural ceiling fan. Manufactured for over 25 years with the same design. Agrifan was built for agriculture and has been proven in the industry to stand up to the tough conditions of poultry and livestock buildings, greenhouses, and other wet, dusty or extreme heat areas.

Efficient. Northwest’s 60” Agrifan continuously circulates the air, and does it more efficiently than other agricultural ceiling fans. At maximum speed of 330 RPM, Agrifan uses less than one amp as it moves the air at up to 43,500 CFM. Agrifan’s energy efficient motor runs on less energy than a 100 watt bulb.

Economical. When used with an existing ventilation or heating

system, Agrifans increase the efficiency of that system up to 30%. In less than one year an Agrifan system can pay for itself in energy savings.

Proven to Last. Agrifan has been tested by farmers for over 25 years and has proven its strength and reliability. With spe-cially engineered and lubricated heat-resistant bearings, triple neoprene moisture seals, and a unique one-way condensation plug - only Agrifan provides a warranty for a full three years and a fan that can stand up to high heat, humidity and condensation.

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Since 1974, Star-Labs has been committed to improving health and performance with PrimaLac microbial cultures.

PrimaLac is a probiotic that is used widely in animal ag-riculture throughout the world. Research has proven that PrimaLac can help in controlling and preventing bacterial related issues in poultry, among which are E. coli and Sal-monella related problems.

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As well as the ability to survive the heat and pressure of pelleting and remain viable. Studies have shown that PrimaLac may enhance animal performance, improve im-mune response, and the utilization of nutrients. Probiotics such as PrimaLac are live sources of friendly bacteria that are ingested as a supplemental aid to promote

health, growth, and disease resistance. Its desired effect is achieved through adding it to the feed or treating in the drinking water. It has been shown to withstand extremes in temperature and humidity and has a two year shelf life.

a year include:

-Stimulation of appetite -Greater ability to bounce back from stress -Young bird mortality after weaning is almost “ zero” -Decrease treatments costs -Can be used with vitamins and other supplements -Antibiotic usage decreased

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Cumberland/Hired-Hand...PowerTrak Vent MachineThe PowerTrak Vent Machine is a new addition to the PowerTrak family designed to operate attic inlets, vent doors and other items requiring a 12” or less controlled movement at, or under, a 2000 lb. capacity.

Composite load nut offers increased life expectancy over brass.

Channel lock “trak-drive” system captures load block.

Door hinges from top of the cabinet on a ceiling mount or can be easily removed on a wall mount for unobstructed access to components.

For more information call 217-226-4401 or visit us at www.cumberlandpoultry.com and www.hired-hand.com

Designed for indoor installation, PowerTrak provides a more cost effective way to operate your vent inlet applications compared to traditional 1’ or 2’ machines.

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FPM Inc. offers commercial egg producers and poultry processing plants over 55 years of experience in building poultry moving equipment. Products include the following:

FPM galvanized poultry moving carts for pullets, breeders or spent fowl. Available in 7 or 8 deck heights and 17.5” or 22” widths. Carts feature a hot dip galvanized frame for maximum corrosion protection. Com-bination folding/swinging gate allows for quick loading and unloading of birds with less wing damage. Maximum ventilation for less shrinkage and low death loss. Easily cleaned and disinfects fast with less water usage. Carts can be shipped unassembled for overseas markets and easily put together at their destination.

Live market carts are similar in size to our pullet moving carts but available with a sol-

Custom sizes are also available.

FPM Depopulation carts for the ethical disposal of spent fowl. Cart is built in ac-cordance to guidelines set forth by research

done at University of Georgia Poultry Sci-ence Department and meets the standards of the United Egg Producers to euthanize birds. The FPM cart is constructed as a rolling dumpster made of steel tubing with galva-nized sheet metal sides. Cart carries its own supply of CO2.

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and light weight removable plastic panels are available to protect birds during inclem-ent weather.

Rhino Rail Lift Gates by FPM have been de-signed for the poultry industries daily use and abuse. Lift gates feature 10ft lift heights with 2000# capacity. Rhino Rail Lifts are available with 12 volt hydraulic pumps or can be run using a PTO system.

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Clear View Enterprises, LLC. (CVE) is an animal health distribution company located in Tontitown, AR. and Monroe, NC. Our primary focus is wholesale distribution of animal health products. Our Sales and Customer Service staff offers you, the producer, access to over 40 years of service and product knowledge, combined with our vendor technical service staffs.CVE provides producers with a wide selection of quality, cost-effective products to help maximize productivity and profitability. Our goal is to offer you quality service combined with competitive pricing and innovative solutions.

CVE is also the owner of the patented Hen Step. This practical light weight, durable, easily sanitized step is proving itself in the field.

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Southwestern Sales - Not Just Curtains Anymore! Southwestern Sales started supplying Poly-lite® sidewall curtain material to the poultry in-dustry over 34 years ago. The “Red and Blue” stripes became the industry standard for quality and durability. Over the years house designs and energy considerations have brought about many changes and Southwestern Sales has evolved to meet those needs with new and cost-effective products. Supplying curtain material and curtain products to the poultry, swine and dairy industries is still a very important part of our business, but “WE AREN’T JUST CUR-TAIN ANYMORE.” Over the past several years Southwestern Sales has diversified into new industries with several new and innovative products.

Staying close to our roots in the poultry in-dustry, Southwestern Sales has recently added several new products to our product line which help growers improve their operating perfor-mance and lower their operating costs.

Here are some of the great new products of-fered by Southwestern Sales:

V-FlexTM and S-FlexTM End Doors

SAVE ENERGY and IMPROVE PER-FORMANCE with our new V-FlexTM and S-FlexTM End Doors.

• End doors which leak air and light have always been a problem for poultry grow-ers. Increasing requirements to maintain static pressure required an improved door design and Southwestern Sales has responded. • The insulated V-FlexTM or S-FlexTM de-sign seals against the end of the house and pro-vides a complete solution to rising energy costs, light control and static pressure requirements.

• V-FlexTM or S-FlexTM End Doors love static pressure. The more fans you run, the tighter seal you get. No Leaks! No pulling doors off track!

MulticatorTM - the only medicator with no moving parts!

SAVE MONEY, no more expensive replace-ment parts and SAVE TIME, no more working on medicators.

• The MulticatorTM has no moving parts to wear out. It is not a pump but a true injector which has the ability to medicate day-old birds just as effectively as full-grown birds. No seals, no springs, no piston, etc…It just performs. • Using a “normally open” solenoid valve and pressure switch, the Multicator is delivered preset to inject treated solution at 1oz per gal (1:128), but has 14 other ratio possibilities. Not harmed by running without solution, the Mul-ticatorTM is ready to use every time you need it. Available in a Standard Unit which handles water demands up to 7gpm, and a High Volume Unit which handles water demand up to 17gpm, the MulticatorTM is the most dependable medi-cator on the market.

T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors

SAVE MONEY and IMPROVE PER-FORMANCE with our new T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors.

• Existing brands of Tunnel doors are expensive, heavy, and difficult to seal. South-western Sales’ new T-FlexTM design has solved these problems. The new T-FlexTM Tunnel Door comes in standard lengths of 20ft and 25ft, and

standard heights of 4ft, 5ft, and 6ft. A 5ft x 20ft section weighs only about 45lbs, which is less than 1/3 the weight of other brands of tun-nel doors. Its light-weight and flexible design, allows the T-FlexTM Tunnel Door to conform to the tunnel inlet, even when it settles or changes over time. • Using our Quad-Flex insulating tech-nology, T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors provide maxi-mum energy efficiency during cold weather conditions. • Delivered completely assembled with mounting hardware installed, significant labor savings can be passed on to the grower because installation time is cut by at least 50%. • T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors seal, they flex to changing conditions, their light weight is easier on inlet machines, and Quad-Flex insulating technology provides maximum energy savings.

Stir Fan – 18”

HIGH EFFICIENCY and HIGH QUAL-ITY combine to make Southwestern Sales’ 18” Stir Fan the best in the industry.

• With its completely sealed and high energy efficient motor, all powder coated com-ponents, UL rating for Outdoor Use, the South-western Sales 18” stir fan provides the highest quality of any stir fan on the market. • The CFM and CFM/Watt ratings for Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan is better than most 20” fans offered by other brands. • Completely assembled with attached 10ft power cord, the Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan is ready to use right out of the box. • For maximum air movement at mini-mum expense, Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan is the high quality solution.


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The KMC Litter Windrower is designed to facilitate the practice of composting in poultry houses. This tool will greatly reduce the cake size and form tight, tall windrows to insure heat levels that kill disease causing pathogens. After windrows heat out the first time, the Windrower efficiently turns the windrow for further composting. When composting is completed, the Windrower is used again to quickly level the composted litter in preparation for the new flock.

Main components consist of a blade; upper and lower augers; a pivoting support arm; and a pair of hydraulically operated, castor gauge wheels. Adjustable skid shoes are also provided to further prevent gouging clay floor. The gauge wheels, in combination with a semi-mount hook-up, allow the Windrower to be used with smaller tractors that are not capable of handling the weight. Two hydraulic cylinders are standard, one for offsetting the blade horizontally and the other for operating the gauge wheels. Additional cylinders are available for changing the horizontal angle of the blade and for tilting the blade vertically. On standard machines, these adjustments are done manually. There is a cake deflector on the discharge end for the purpose of breaking and deflecting cake into the cake breakers, also located on the discharge end of each auger. The spring loaded Wall Edger on the right end of the blade can be ran against a smooth wall surface to avoid leaving a ribbon of litter next to the wall. A depth gauge is visible over the right shoulder of the operator to insure the blade is running at the desired depth.

SPEED AND EFFICIENCY: Several features account for the speed and efficiency of the KMC Litter Windrower: PTO drive that delivers more horsepower to the augers; unique, overlapping auger system for greater discharge capacity, contoured blade with multiple run angles for directed litter flow; open discharge end for unobstructed flow into the windrow; and gauge wheels and skid shoes that allow for speedy operation while minimizing chances of gouging the clay pad.

CAKE BREAKING: The overlapping augers, cake deflector and cake breakers are standard equipment for reducing the cake size going into the windrow. The cake deflector and cake breakers can be removed if reducing the size of cake is not desired.


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Today, American Pro-teins operates the larg-est poultry protein and lipids conversion opera-tion in the world. For ex-pert processing of poul-try by-products, you can’t find a more experi-enced or technologically innovative leader than American Proteins.

From our start in 1949 as a small family busi-ness, we have grown to become the international resource for processing allied poultry products which include Chicken Meal, Stabilized Poultry Protein Meal, Stabilized Poultry Fat, Hydrolyzed Poultry Feather Meal, and Low Ash Pet Food Poultry Protein Meal to name a few.

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The Turbulator is the perfect solution for destratification of heated air in an open truss poultry house. The Turbulator stir fan design is so unique that no other fan in today’s mar-ket performs in the same way.

The Turbulator moves large quantities of air, at low veloci-ties, in a flat cone-shaped pattern that follows the slope of the house roof downward. This provides a uniform airflow over a large area with the least amount of air blasts or dead spots, resulting in a very even heat distribution from the floor to the ridge. Cold or hot spots are virtually eliminated. The existing heating system becomes more efficient and fuel costs are reduced during the cold winter months

The Turbulator produces gentle, sweeping air movements over the floor surface. The unique design of the Turbulator allows for a 360 degree cast of air that creates a vortex of return air as it approaches the propeller. This action creates the uniform heat distribution from wall to wall that results in an even bird distribution and a drier litter throughout the poultry house.

Construction features:• Ease of installation• Welded steel construction• High efficiency 4 blade impeller

• Impeller safety locked to shaft• Continuous duty, Totally-enclosed motor

Key advantages:• 360 degree air flow• No direct air blasts to disrupt animals• Moves large volumes of air at low velocities• Even heat distribution from floor to ceiling• Reduces Heating fuel demand• Gentle sweeping air movement at bird level• Drier litter throughout the house• Even bird distribution throughout the house

The Turbulator is designed to be installed in open truss buildings and is not recommended for use in drop ceiling buildings or applications that would allow for contact by people, objects, or animals. Suggested installation height is 12-16 feet from the bottom of impeller to the closest work-ing surface (floor, bench, etc).

An optional guard kit is recommended when the impeller is installed less than 12 feet from the closest working surface. By OSHA requirements, the lowest point of the unit must be at least 8 feet from any working surface, even with the optional guard in place.

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NEW “BIG FOOT” RADIANT TUBE BROODER PRODUCES EXTRA WIDE, RECTANGULAR HEAT PATTERN FOR POULTRY HOUSE APPLICATIONSCHARLOTTE, North Carolina USA --- A new series of radiant tube brooders designed to yield an extra wide, rectangular heat pattern for poultry houses has been introduced by Space-Ray of Charlotte, N.C. Marketed under the name BIG FOOT™, the new brooder provides one of the largest rectangular shaped heating footprints available for modern poultry applications. Available in natural or propane gas, the new PBF Series from Space-Ray saves on fuel costs, reduces maintenance and permits higher mounting in the poultry house for broader coverage and added efficiency. The reflector angle of the BIG FOOT radiant tube brooder is engineered to an optimum angle of 19º which improves the radiant footprint and minimizes convective wash. The result is a more uniform heat distribution, better brooding conditions, and more comfort for the birds.

Features NotedSpace-Ray Big Foot Heaters use positive pressure to push products of combustion through the heavy-duty calorized aluminized steel combustion chamber. Calorized tube material offers improved corrosion resistance and greater radiant output. Each of the heaters come with a choice of one-stage or two-stage input controls for added flexibility and a totally enclosed burner box that places all the power, thermostat and gas connections in one central location for easier installation and maintenance.The CSA-Certified BIG FOOT radiant tube brooder series is available in four sizes from 60,000 BTU/hr (18 kW/hr) to 90,000 BTU/hr (26 kW/hr). The most popular size is the 80,000 BTU/Hr. (23.5 kW/Hr) version. The Big Foot is also available in either “U” shaped tube or straight tube versions. The standard emitter tube length is 20 ft (6.1 m), while the overall length for the “U” tube version is 11½ ft. (3.5 m) and the straight version is 21½ ft (6.6 m).Each unit is pre-assembled for easy installation and comes with fresh air intake kit, exhaust hood, stainless steel flexible gas connector and a pre wired electrical connection. Additionally, each unit offers a 3-year limited warranty on the complete emitter assembly.

Unique TISS™ SystemUnique to Space-Ray is the patented¹ TISS™ system that automatically turns off the heater in the unlikely event of a tube failure. With the TISS™ system, an insulated aluminum wire is positioned in tension above the reflector. A low voltage circuit continuously monitors the clearance between the reflectors and the ceiling for excessive heat and tube integrity compromise. If the heat increases due to heat exchanger failure, the wire melts, the safety circuit is broken and the brooder shuts down.“We decided if we introduced a positive pressure system to poultry houses, we would take steps to assure the integrity of the system and provide the ultimate in safety” noted Wilf Jackson, Sales Director for Space-Ray. “…we wanted a system that was safer than any other model on the market today. The TISS provides peace of mind. It may never be needed but in the unlikely event of a tube failure poultry house owners will be pleased that they have a TISS system.”

About Space-RayDesigners of the original radiant gas brooder in 1958, Space-Ray brooders have withstood the test of time. Beside the new BIG FOOT tube brooder, Space-Ray also offers an energy efficient line of spark ignition radiant brooders, a line of single jet brooders and a complete line of both pull through (negative pressure) and push through (positive pressure) tube-type gas heaters for poultry applications.Unlike space heaters that work from the top down heating the air and the upper areas of the poultry house before stratifying down to heat the birds, Space-Ray’s radiant gas tube heaters operate using the same principles as the sun’s rays. They deliver radiant warmth directly to the floor and litter area where it is needed most. The first U.S. manufacturer to design unitized tube heaters, Space-Ray has over 50 years of field experience and exposure to a variety of heating problems. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Space-Ray also has a facility located in Ipswich, England.

For more information on the new BIG FOOT Series of radiant tube brooders, contactSpace-Ray Brooders, 305 Doggett Street, P. O. Box 36485, Charlotte, N.C. 28236 USA, call 1-800-849-7311 or (704) 372-3488, FAX (704) 332-5843, or E-Mail [email protected]. Space-Ray Brooders can also be found on the web at www.spaceray.com.

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