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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 17 April 2020; Hits: 1544

Al Zain Poultry Farms Oman 3 Al Zain Poultry Farms, a Ross® 308 broiler customer from Oman, recently became a member of the Ross 400 Club. Al Zain Poultry Farms established its broiler operation in 2018 and is currently rearing 1.2 million Ross 308 broilers per cycle with 9 cycles per year. The Ross 400 Club recognizes producers who score a European Product Efficiency Factor (EPEF) of 400 or more with their broiler flocks.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 17 April 2020; Hits: 1637

National U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey, published recently in Plant Disease, provides the first large-scale, systematic insight into how wheat and barley growers manage Fusarium head blight (FHB), also known as scab, and where they get information on how to control this destructive disease.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 07 January 2026; Hits: 884

A new tool from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can predict the odds that honey bee colonies overwintered in cold storage will be large enough to rent for almond pollination in February. Identifying which colonies will not be worth spending dollars to overwinter can improve beekeepers' bottom line.

Beekeepers have been losing an average of 30 percent of overwintered colonies for nearly 15 years. It is expensive to overwinter colonies in areas where winter temperatures stay above freezing. So a less expensive practice of overwintering bee colonies in cold storage is becoming popular.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 23 August 2019; Hits: 1832

Today, Roxell, the leading manufacturer of automatic feeding, drinking, nesting and heating systems, is launching the Shen-Turbo 100, a space heater that generates more heat with 80,000 BTU/h of propane than similarly sized heaters on the market. The compact Shen-Turbo 100 is a new addition to Roxell's range of convection heaters. Shen-Turbo provides a solution to a number of specific needs of pig and poultry farmers.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 19 March 2017; Hits: 3889

March 15, 2017

A Mississippi-based Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researcher has learned that using poultry litter as fertilizer can help cotton growers in the Southeast maximize profits.

Poultry litter (chicken manure, spilled feed, excess feathers, and other poultry-house materials) contains nitrogen and phosphorus—both important crop nutrients. Applying poultry litter to the soil also recycles some of the tons of litter generated annually by poultry operations throughout the United States, says Haile Tewolde, an ARS agronomist at Mississippi State.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 23 June 2015; Hits: 10956

Photo: Catfish fingerlings. Link to photo information By Sandra Avant

June 23, 2015

Water hardness can influence the development of columnaris disease in catfish, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists found a difference in disease development in fish exposed to hard and soft water containing the bacterial pathogen Flavobacterium columnare, which causes columnaris disease

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 19 March 2020; Hits: 8138

Microbiologist Qingzhong Yu examining recombinant Newcastle disease virus vaccine candidates in infected cells. Link to photo information

By Sharon Durham

March 20, 2015

A vaccine that protects chickens against two infectious poultry diseases has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 11 March 2015; Hits: 8640

Photo: A new ARS-developed sorghum variety growing next to a conventional variety in a breeder's field. Link to photo information

By Sharon Durham
February 6, 2015

A new sorghum plant developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists can produce more seeds than conventional varieties currently grown by farmers.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 11 March 2015; Hits: 9909

Photo: Two hands holding a cluster of fungus-free channel catfish eggs. Link to photo information

By Sandra Avant
February 18, 2015

A disinfectant has the potential to treat fungus on catfish eggs, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 04 October 2014; Hits: 12764

Photo: Rainbow trout. By Sandra Avant

October 3, 2014

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are taking their studies to the field to gauge the survival rate of a new line of rainbow trout that is resistant to bacterial cold-water disease.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 02 October 2014; Hits: 12401

Photo: Poultry litter being incorporated into the soil during disking of a field. Link to photo information By Dennis O'Brien

September 24, 2014

Using poultry litter as fertilizer is a welcome trend in many southern states because that is where most of the U.S. broiler chickens are produced. The litter's nitrogen content helps boost crop yields, and also helps reduce farmers' expenses for commercial fertilizers. But a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agronomist has found that many farmers in Mississippi may be applying litter at the wrong time of year.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 12 May 2014; Hits: 12872

Photo: Eggs in an egg crate. Link to photo information By Marcia Wood

March 31, 2014

Classic Caesar salad, old-fashioned eggnog, some homemade ice cream—and many other popular foods—may contain raw eggs. Now, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-led research has produced a faster way to pasteurize raw, in-shell eggs without ruining their taste, texture, color or other important qualities.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 26 March 2014; Hits: 36628

By Sandra Avant

March 24, 2014

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have given the Newcastle disease classification system a much-needed update, making it easier to identify virus types.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 03 March 2014; Hits: 4073

By Sandra Avant

March 3, 2014

A number of poultry industry groups are using a less costly method to collect avian influenza virus samples, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.

Avian influenza is a foreign disease that infects poultry and other bird species. Viruses identified as highly pathogenic cause severe disease, killing more than 90 percent of infected birds. Low pathogenic viruses are not as severe, but can cause sickness in birds as well as financial losses

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Poultry Sciences News; Last Updated: 28 January 2014; Hits: 4418

By Sandra Avant

January 28, 2014

An alternate vaccine delivery system for newborn chicks has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to improve vaccination against intestinal diseases like coccidiosis.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 12 July 2021; Hits: 913

May 23, 2021- The spacious and vibrant port city of Novorossiysk, Russia hosted 300 visitors and participants from 40 national regions, all of them agriculture professionals, dairy experts and government agencies, for XII Dairy Olympics and VII Milk Summit. The annual event is a brainchild of The Dairy News, the largest independent mass media on dairy in Russia.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 01 June 2021; Hits: 821

In 2001, World Milk Day was established by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to recognize the importance of milk as a global food, and to celebrate the dairy sector. Each year since, the benefits of milk and dairy products have been actively promoted around the world, including how dairy supports the livelihoods of one billion people.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 21 April 2021; Hits: 1030

Grazing is an agricultural term to describe the natural behavior of cattle moving across pastures and rangelands as they consume different plants. Surprisingly, grazing cattle are selective about where and which plants they will eat, and land managers consider grazing distribution an essential factor in deciding how to manage their herds, including how to prevent overgrazing for conserving biodiversity of the land.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 30 June 2020; Hits: 1300

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are developing an innovative approach to address a major environmental challenge facing the nation's animal farmers: the accumulation of nutrients in the manure.

Manure produced in livestock and poultry operations has been increasing since the 1950s when large-scale feeding operations, along with large-scale crop farms, began to replace many of the nation's small, family-run farms that traditionally produced both crops and livestock and used the manure as fertilizer to boost crop yields.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 24 June 2020; Hits: 1278

Calves are young and vulnerable animals. In a short period, calves have to develop from a monogastric into a ruminant animal. This transition requires them to grow in both size and mass, while dealing with transportation, man handling and changing environments. All these challenges together cause a lot of stress that may lead to a lower immune system.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 12 June 2020; Hits: 1336

Maximizing efficiency and minimizing environmental impact

In a drive towards sustainable solutions, PANCOSMA, ADM’s global feed additives business, have developed a range of XTRACT® bioactive products to address methane emissions of livestock ruminants. According to FAO 2013*, these emissions represent 5% of all greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 11 May 2020; Hits: 1713

Predicting grassland productivity is a major challenge for ranchers and other land managers with grazing livestock. This productivity is key each spring when they are trying to decide how many cattle to turn out to pasture, how long to graze an area, or where forage might be abundant.

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: Ruminants & Dairy Industry; Last Updated: 22 March 2020; Hits: 1474

Using high-tech tools, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their cooperators have taken a deep dive into the microbial "soup" of the cow's rumen, the first of four stomach chambers where tough plant fibers are turned into nutrients and energy.

Ultimately, such efforts could lead to new ways of ensuring the health and wellbeing of cows as well as improving their production of milk, meat and other products, noted Derek Bickhart, a research microbiologist with ARS' U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

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