As part of an environmental management goal to be “landfill free” by 2020, Keystone Foods' poultry further processing plant in Reidsville, North Carolina, sends all sludge from its dissolved air flotation (DAF) wastewater system to a farm that composts the material to produce soil amendment products for landscaping – never to a landfill.

By land applying poultry wastewater, Claxton Poultry Farms converted hundreds of acres of land dominated by weeds and prickly pear cactus to productive farmland producing nutritious feed for local animal production.

Media members attending the 2015 Chicken Media Summit heard four poultry experts bust six prevalent myths about poultry production.

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) updated two avian flu response plan documents that should be required reading for the U.S. poultry industry.

 Pre-chiller treatments, cleaning processing surfaces with ozonatedwater, and preharvest litter treatments reduce Salmonella in poultry parts.   

Callit social responsibility or faith-based sustainability, the U.S. poultryindustry is helping in the effort to feed people, restore livelihoods andrebuild Haiti.