Alien Species Cost U.S. $123 Billion A Year
...roducedspecies as wheat, rice, domestic cattle and poultry with a value of more than$500 billion a year. Ho... called the Asiatic, Norway or brown rat). Rats on poultry farms and other farms number about 1 billion and each destroysgrain and other goods worth $15 a yea...Salmonella Vaccine Now Available For Poultry
...a vaccinethat controls Salmonella contamination of poultry products. The new vaccine, Megan™Vac 1, is applied to baby chicks via spray in thehatchery. The vaccine stimulates immunity in the chickens, preventing Salmonella infection during the growing period which may result in contaminationand subsequent...Garlic Perfumes Poultry Houses
...cientists are findingthat it works like a charm in poultry houses ... and may lower thecholesterol in eggs, t...al and veterinary science professor. "It makes the poultry house smelllike a pizzeria instead of manure." As urban populations expand into rural areas,...American Society Of Animal Science Recognizes Global Scope Of Virginia Tech Researcher's Work
...use ofthat work, Notter, a professor of animal and poultry sciences at Virginia Tech,has been awarded the prestigious American Society of Animal Science's award forbreeding and genetics. That research not only helps farmers in rural U.S., but it also helpsfarmers in remote foreign areas develop breed...Composting Livestock Waste Provides Benefits
...e on farm fields, but hog farms, beef feedlots and poultry operations all have problems with what to do with all of the manure they produce. Purdue University researchers have found that composting waste from livestock operations can be an efficient way to manage the waste with less cost. Composting also vir...UD Environmental News: Pfiesteria Detectors To Be Described March 18
...Resources, researchers have emphasized support for poultry growers andproducers. Delaware's Sussex County is the nation's largest poultry-producingcounty, Sims says, and though "most of our farmers are doing a good job,"unpredictable weather conditions can make efficient nutrient managementdifficult. WATER......bles, citrusfruits, legumes, lean cuts of meat and poultry and fortified cereals couldprovide an individual with these amounts of folate and vitamin B-6. However,for most individuals, achieving intakes associated with the lowest heart diseaserisk for women in the JAMA study (400 mcg per day of folate and 3m...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...being used for de-boning chickens and turkeys at a poultry packaging plant. The knife did a poor job of de-boning, and a high incident rate of carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and tenosynovitis resulted in a $100,000 per annum increase in worker compensation premiums. A new, ergonomically designed pistol...UMass Researchers Announce Birth Of Genetically Modified Cloned Calves
...ry of Avian Farms, Inc. , of Waterville, Maine, a poultry genetics company....Virologists Track New Influenza Threat
... said, "but the surveillance in poultry will tell us what's out there. We ...1983, a massive epidemic of H5 influenza decimated poultry and cost the U.S. Department of Agriculture $61 million to era...Many Dog Foods About Equal In Nutritional Value, Researchers Say
...d control diet of defattedsoy flour, and that some poultry by-products were only slightly less digestiblein t... digestible nutrients, the authors concluded. The poultry by-product effect, Fahey said, probably resulted from extraneousmaterial, such as feathers and egg s...Competitive Inhibition May Enhance Safety Of Minimally Processed Fruits And Vegetables
...isms. Biocontrol has also been studied for use in poultry to reduce the presence ofCampylobacter jejuni, in cattle to eliminate E. coli O157:H7 prior toslaughtering, and in refrigerated meat products to guard against spoilage. For a copy of the article or Sept. 1997 issue of Food Technology, contact AngelaD...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...s vaccine will be the first salmonella vaccine for poultry marketed in the United States. Curtiss reported t...in this development are American consumers and the poultry industry, which brings 7 billion chickens from processing plants to dinner tables each year. There ......ules do not yet allow ozone to comein contact with poultry products. The system strips out any residual ozone...e cylinders but not in the chiller tanks where the poultry isbeing cooled. Studies by Waldroup and Forsythe have shown that direct applicationof ozone to poult...