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.
There is no feed formulation change that will eliminate broiler breast meat myopathies, but there may be strategies that make sense for some complexes to employ.
After a one-year hiatus, the animal feed, poultry and meat industries returned in-person to Atlanta for the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), the largest U.S. gathering of producers and processors.
Inexpensive cameras, wireless connectivity, wearable sensors and tech start ups with solid financial backing all contribute to promising opportunities but creating the digital systems that deliver ROI on this promise requires producer collaboration.
With retail cage-free egg sales volume in California running just slightly higher than the US average, implementation of Prop 12 requirements for egg sales won’t be smooth.
Development and implementation of new technologies in the poultry industry require producers and inventors to work together to find the right solutions.