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Terrence OKeefe

Food Safety and Processing Perspective

Terrence O’Keefe, WATT’s content director, provides his perspective on everything from animal agriculture trends that impact our food chain to food-safety related issues affecting chicken and egg production. O’Keefe has covered the poultry industry as an editor for more than a decade and also brings his experience in plant management and poultry production to comment on today’s issues. Read more
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Poultry Around the World

Mark Clements' view of the world poultry industry with a British twist. Read more
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How COVID-19 has hurt China’s poultry industry

While the rest of the world battens down, the least affected areas of China are now functioning more normally, but it will take time for the poultry industry to recover.
March 20, 2020
Mark Clements

The novel coronavirus, while not infecting chickens, has significantly harmed China’s broiler and egg industries.


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Latin America Poultry at a Glance

A blog providing analysis of the poultry and feed industries in Latin America. Read more
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The magic of a can of tuna in times of health crisis

Why is canned tuna quickly disappearing from the supermarket shelves with the COVID-19 quarantine and not so many other proteins?
April 3, 2020
Benjamín Ruiz
In recent days, the site CentralAmericanData.com reported on optimism in the canned tuna sector following the COVID-19 pandemic, as a 50% increase in demand was forecast.
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Roy Graber

Agrifood Angle

Roy Graber combines his Midwestern farming background with his knowledge of economics and agriculture policy to offer a deeper look at the poultry and pig industries. Read more
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Wayne Farms chicken so popular it backs up traffic

Because of shortage of chicken at grocery stores amid COVID-19 pandemic, Wayne Farms holds a drive-through sale that attracted huge number of shoppers
April 7, 2020
Roy Graber
If the Wayne Farms personnel ever questioned how much consumers in Albertville, Alabama, enjoy the company’s chicken products, there should be little doubt now.
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US poultry industry insights

Austin Alonzo, editor of WATT Poultry USA, examines hot topics surrounding the US poultry industry as it deals with a changing consumer, emerging animal welfare concerns and other disruptive challenges. Read more
Deven King

The Chicken and the Egg

Deven King, managing editor of Egg Industry magazine, offers her outlook on the issues affecting chicken and egg production, along with the happenings in the global feed and grain industries. Read more
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Poultry biosecurity plans prepared humans for COVID-19

As state lawmakers continue to put stay-at-home orders in place, people could learn to be safe by implementing some of the steps associated with poultry biosecurity.
March 31, 2020
Deven King
A lot of companies are providing agriculture-related educational worksheets to kids that currently can't go to school, perhaps something on biosecurity could be next and create trust between producers and consumers?
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