Poultry Digest August/September 2016

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Feedworks Conference: Clarity in today’s world The annual Feedworks Conference held at the Twin Waters Resort on the Queensland Sunshine Coast in September had for its 2016 theme, ‘Clarity in today’s world’.

This conference just gets better with every event. Covering both ruminant and monogastric species it attracts speakers who are on top of their game from around the world.

Feedwork’s Managing Partner, Malcolm Mottram opened the conference and spoke about his company’s “position on animal production and the use of technologies to reduce in-feed medication use.

“We believe in bringing solutions to our clients that have been scientifically evaluated and proven,” he said.

“This conference is a great opportunity for us to present solutions that are proven through science.

“We reinforce these with clear ideas on how Feedworks and the products that we provide can be effectively incorporated into businesses.

“As the Australian livestock industries move towards reducing and removing the widespread use of infeed antibiotics, we offer information to provide an understanding of our position and objectives in support of the ‘One Health’ principles that have been globally adopted and promoted for antibiotic stewardship.

“At the core of the ‘One Health’ philosophy is the judicious use of ABs. “At feedworks we believe that to successfully implement the ‘One Health’ philosophy, a holistic approach to animal production, encompassing nutrition and functional additives, is a central part of reducing the use of antibiotics and other medications.

“Feedworks provides several products that have been scientifically proven to assist with improved animal health and better production outcomes.

“Our focus is to support our clients and provide them with scientifically proven alternatives that also meet Australia’s AgVet regulations for use,” Malcolm concluded.

The Conference guest speaker Ross Dawson is internationally recognised as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, strategy advisor and best selling author.

Ross’ guide ‘How to be your own futurist’ was entertaining and inspiring.

“Every two days we create more information than was created through all human history up until 2003 (quote from

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Eric Schmidt, Google),” Ross said.

“Another pivotal moment in human history: the emergence of the iphone.”

Dr Dave Cadogan, Feedwork’s Monogastric Manager opened the proceedings on September 15 and introduced Professor Roselina Angel from the University of Maryland who spoke about ‘Noise and clarity around Phytate, digestible Phosphorous and digestible Calcium’.

Roselina’s main area of research broadly focuses on maximising dietary nutrient availability and she is a world renowned expert on dietary calcium, phosphorus, phytate and phytase in poultry.

“Who will win the race? The nutritionist must formulate and choose ingredients to ensure that the phytase wins the race,” she said.

She explained the impact of the particle size of limestone on Ca digestibility from limestone in the presence or absence of phytase.

Dr Kirsty Gibbs from Danisco Animal Nutrition in the UK has a specialist microbiological background. Her PhD focused on the epidemiology, molecular and pathogenic characterisations of avian pathogenic E.coli (APEC) in broiler chickens.

She presented two papers, ‘Envira Pro, Your Birds, Our Science and ‘Synergetic effects between enzymes and probiotics: Sydney University results’.

This issue of Poultry Digest is running more details of Kirsty’s papers and Envira Pro later in the magazine.

‘Biomarkers and managing mycotoxins’ was the topic for Dr Astrid Koppenol from Imprextraco BV. “How do we assess the need for a new mycotoxin eliminator?” she asked.

“Once there has been a performance drop it’s too late as there is immunosuppression at low levels before clinical signs appear.

“If scientific proof is required then biomarkers make detection possible in the early stages of the contamination.

“It is logical to recommend a mycotoxin program as insurance more than ‘a cure’,” Astrid said.

Concluding on the subject of what we should look for in a mycotoxin eliminator, in vitro, also in vivo research, when it came to performance and immune response, biomarkers are great too, she said. w Professor Phil Hind has enjoyed

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a long career in animal science and has driven many important research programs at the University of Adelaide.

His paper delivered at the Feedworks Conference this year, ‘Developmental programming, a new frontier for the broiler industry’, started with research into fetal development in sheep and fiber production but the rapid life cycle of the modern broiler chicken took Phil and his able assistants down a different path.

Poultry Digest thinks that this research, which could have international ramifications deserves more explanation than we can reveal here so we will run the full story in our next publication.

The final paper of the day delivered

by Dr David Ohman, Technical Services Specialist at Diamond V, was ‘Offsetting the negative impacts of inflammation with Diamond V’ and firstly explained the original focus of research and the resulting species based product production.

“Now in addition to production effects we are looking at health and food safety. A 10 year innovation effort has resulted in new products like XPC to help in reduction of food pathogens including Salmonella and Campylobacter.

“Retailer interest in food safety has increased dramatically and 20% of the food production cost in the US involves a Salmonella risk program,” he said.

“Walmart for instance has a program that requires the mandatory feeding of XPC to all flocks producing eggs for the big retailer,” he added.

On Friday September 16 the first speaker was Professor Peter Plumstead, Technical Director of Chemunique whose career includes work as a research scientist including seven years as Senior Scientist, Global Enzyme R&D for Danisco in the UK. His topic was ‘South African experience in monogastric nutrition’.

“Of the 6.9 m tonnes of compound feed produced p.a. in South Africa, poultry take 61.6% with broiler chicken dominating at 40.7%.

“Chicken meat consumption pppc is 38kg and egg consumption 139 pppa and there is a significant preference for dark meat,” he said “The future population explosion in Southern Africa will increase from 280 million today to 656 m by 2050 (236%).

“The SA poultry industry has been highly driven to reduce cost/kg of broiler meat produced in any way possible. Requirement is driven by EU methodology, and the industry has been an early adopter of available technology

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(enzymes, probiotics),” he said.

“One of the key factors has been for the maximum Phytase performance benefits in the birds IP6 (Phytate) needs to be hydrolised as rapidly as possible and as completely as possible, in the proximal part of the digestive tract.”

Dr Jan Frank, Diamond V’s Director Nonruminant Research and Technical Support, next outlined ‘Commercial experience and use of Diamond V products in monogastrics’.

Speaking about Original XPC for layers and broilers, Dr Frank showed data from seven years of field trials, involving over seven million broilers.

In broiler breeder production he mentioned increased egg production and beneficial maternal effects on progeny.

On food safety, particularly in relation to Salmonella and Campylobacter, “XPC has been shown to reduce Salmonella prevalence by, on average, 58.7% and specific Salmonella numbers by 82.9%”.

He said that Diamond V products’ fundamental mode of action is around immune function, intestinal morphology and microbial balance and activity.

Dr Kirsty Gibbs returned to explain the ‘Synergistic effects between enzymes and probiotics, Sydney University results’ and we add those to the story on Envira Pro in this issue.

Not relying on long term constant use of acids and high levels of zinc and copper to reduce pathogens was the topic of Dr Santiago Ramirez from FCR Solutions.

“On the use of alternative molecules to reduce the ‘negative’ impact of pathogenic bacteria in intensive agriculture, Santiago posed the questions; “Are we heading in the right direction, also are we creating a ‘work out gym’ for bacterial pathogens to become stronger?”

Santiago explained how trace metals link to bacterial antibiotic resistance and, “how intensive agriculture can shape acid resistance and mineral supplementation in poultry when background mineral levels in the rations are often not taken into consideration,” he said.

He talked about a study of Lake Orta in Italy where a pristine lake had little exposure to interaction with human population and should suggest very little evidence of AB resistances.

“However microbiological studies reveal a large number of bacterial populations with antibiotic resistant genes already present,” he said.

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hough the focal point of the Jefo Poultry and Swine Tour (held from August 29 to September 2) may have been the excellent conference held in Quebec, there were many other important aspects to the event.

The primary objectives of the tour were to promote exchanges between all attendees around the poultry and swine production challenges in their respective countries through the conference and to provide relevant technical information.

Also important was the opportunity

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to visit the Jefo Group’s installations and to gain a better understanding of how they operate at a globally competitive level – which they certainly do.

The group assembled in Quebec and had the opportunity to explore the old quarter which resembles any historic European city.

After the conference concluded the group was taken to visit the Meunerie Trans Canada inc (Trans Canada Feed Mill) established by Alfred Couture in 1945 and now operated by the third generation of the Couture family.

Twice in its history the mill was the victim of major fires, one in 1988 and a second in 2009 at the St-Apollinaire plant which was totally rebuilt in 2010 at a cost of $26 million.

The result is a state of the art facility currently operating at a capacity of 200,000 metric tonnes per annum, but designed to be expandable to a predicted target of 300,000 mt.

The Trans Canada Feed Mill is a privately owned company, mostly active in swine (60%), broilers, turkeys and

layers, (40%).

Sixty per cent of production is devoted to integrated farming operations which includes 80,000 layers, 2500,000 broilers, 160,000 turkeys, 80,000 pullets, 175,000 pigs and 7,500 sows.

The company produces five different diets for layers, broilers,turkeys, swine and dairy cows – 95% in bulk and 5% in bags.

Forty percent of production is sold to other farming operations.

The fully automated feed mill is operated by only six full time employees and feed deliveries are made by seven bulk product trucks with a 38 tonne load capacity.

The current Managing Director, Bernard Couture is a visionary within the Canadian feed industry who sees plenty of opportunities to expand the scope of his feed mill and farming operations.

From the feed mill the group travelled back to St Hyacinthe to visit the home of the Fontaine family which is a working farm including research

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sheds for both broilers and layers and other species.

We also visited part of the Jefo production and storage facility where Jean Francoise Fontaine explained operations to us.

One of the key strategies for Jefo has been to finance the rapid expansion of its operations by leasing areas of those facilities for both storage and production of not only feed but food products.

Much of the farm’s sloping terrain is devoted to vines growing a hybrid Frontenac grape that resulted from cross breeding vines at the University of Minnesota and it thrives in the cold climates of Canada and USA. It has become the basis for a growing wine industry in both Canada and northern states of the USA. It is also very resistant to downy mildew and botrytis and there is a white wine grape that resulted in a mutation from the original hybridisation.

The wine produced by Jefo is marketed under the Justino label.

Jefo is proud of its research operations and we had an opportunity to see and understand specific research into both layer and broiler nutrition in the automated climate controlled sheds that replicate modern enclosed commercial production.

Here batches of feed using Jefo additives are tested for all the important production parameters.

Speaking at a recent ‘New Ideas’ symposium held by the Poultry CRC at the University of New England, Dr Greg Hargraves from Baiada commented that “though he was interested in new feed additives and the opportunities that they presented for alternatives in feed strategy, sometimes data and specific detail was lacking in some instances”.

This is why Jefo goes to considerable lengths to establish the credentials of its products.

In the future there will be a new administration centre on site at the farm that Jean Fontaine hopes will be able to provide assistance to post grad scientists working in animal health and nutrition research.

Did we mention that Jean Fontaine and his family like a party and the farm tour progressed to his wonderful home and surrounding gardens for a ‘Special Jefo Cocktail’ event.

Live music, pleasant weather and yes, plenty of wine!

Later at a dinner provided at the Vignoble Chateau Fontaine, an onsite conference facility, the well fed and watered participants were left to do their best with the Karaoke set up.

Australian team leader Wayne Bradshaw is always up for this activity and the night of September 1 was no

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However, having got the ball well and truly rolling Wayne found that he had real competition from plenty of other enthusiastic participants!

On the final day, September 2, after groups photos were taken, the group was taken on a tour of the Jefo Logistics facility where a vast array of bulk and palleted storage covers an extensive area.

Obviously Jefo’s growing feed additives business is vital to its overall operation but its huge logistics operation must be a major generator of both revenue and the drive behind expansion.

In Australia, for instance, grain accumulation businesses are highly prized for both investment and revenue.

In fact when it comes to the ‘national interest’ our government seems to regard such business as strategically vital.

Jefo’s storage and distribution assets are simply vast and the company is able to source not only basic raw materials but all critical feed and animal health components from at least a 500 mile radius: that takes in much of the best producing cropping regions of both Canada and the US. Jefo operates a sophisticated storage and transport business and it has facilities to store and deliver sensitive products like vaccines as well as feed. In fact a lot of its warehouse space is leased to its competitors!

A growing fleet of 36 prime movers and fifty large capacity trailers range across a vast area that is at the heart of both US and Canadian agricultural production.

A dedicated service facility keeps the transport assets on the road and on time. tThey have a rail track that can deliver bulk products to port facilities for exports to important markets around the world. The company even has its own rolling stock.

All aspects of the business are controlled by advanced systems to make them a leading “Just in Time’ (JIT) supplier.

This broad inventory of essential nutrition and animal health inputs broadens its customer base as deliveries are made to farms and feed mills covering a large and productive area.

This gives the company an ideal base on which to develop and deliver its own products and is probably the greatest single reason for Jefo’s incredible growth.

The Jefo Poultry and Swine Tour was not only highly informative, it was great fun and as always on these trips friendships are formed or revived.

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1. Jefo Logistics grain storage canola and lots of it. 2. Jean Francoise Fontaine, responsible for growing logistics operation. 3. Lysine – enough to supply a booming livestock sector over a 500 mile radius. 4. Layer research sheds.

Poultry Digest would like to thank not only the Fontaine famly for their incredible hospitality but also the ever cheerful Jefo staff members who kept the show on the road!

Also thanks to Bernard Couture and his staff for allowing us to crawl all over his state of the art feed mill – very impressive!

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Jefo Poultry & Swine Conference 2016 Poultry Digest recently travelled to Canada to join and report on the Jefo Poultry & Swine Conference and Tour from August 29 to September 2.

We met Wayne Bradshaw, head of Jefo Australia at Jefo founder Jean Fontaine’s home and the site of their research farm at Saint Hyacinthe near Montreal.

The following day Jean drove us to Quebec where the conference was held at the Chateau Laurier Hotel.

Our party from Australia included Dr Peter Scott (Scolexia) Dr Santiago Ramirez (Fractal Nutrition) and Dr Roger Campbell (Pork CRC). Also Dr Sheridan Alfirovich and George Ruiz from Baiada.

Other delegates attended from Brazil, Canada, France, Colombia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, United States, Malaysia, Thailand, Panama, Argentina, The Dominican Republic and Nigeria and they were a lively bunch.

On the main road into town we passed the Universite Laval where Jean received his degree in animal science.

He worked for a time in the local feed industry before founding Jefo in 1982.

“I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do in the field of feed and animal nutrition so I borrowed some money from my family, just $10,000, and got on with it,” Jean explained.

Now 34 years later Jefo has grown to be a major animal nutrition and feed distribution business that operates on five continents and 55 countries.

It is a global leader in the sector of non-medicated performance feed additives and a pioneer in research,

development and manufacture of species specific products.

Jefo’s approach involves a sustainable patented production system and the company believes in working closely with its customer base and associated nutritionists, veterinarians and feed mill management.

It was an interesting time to be on the North American continent as pressure to reduce or abandon the use of antibiotics grows through consumer, government and food retailer pressure.

Just about all of the major players in the massive US/Canadian fast food industries are promoting AB free products.

Jefo President Jean Fontaine opened the conference on August 30 and the first speaker was Crystal Mackay, CEO of Farm and Food Care Canada who has a vision for building public trust in food and farming in Canada.

Her topic was ‘Social Licence and Public Trust’.

In concluding a review of the attitudes of farmers and consumers, Ms Mackay stated that “if you want to drive change, we need to get out of the truck.

“Tell your story, share your company values, practices and stories.

“Invest in taking those stories to the people who provide credible information and connections to those who grow it,” she said.

“When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence,” she concluded.

Dr Leigh Rosengren from Rosengren Epidemiological Consulting, practiced large and small animal medicine with a focus on population medicine

in Saskatchewan, Canada before establishing her own consultancy in 2007.

Her topic was, ‘Antibiotics, Resistance and Public Health’.

Given that Canada (and the US) may be further down the road than Australia in dealing with AB resistance and other aspects of AB use reduction, Dr Rosengren’s expertise delivers a valuable insight into a ‘wicked’ problem for both agriculture and society as a whole.

Firstly, she outlined the resistance process and stated that “resistance is ancient and ubiquitous and emerges with use.

“Resistance is incremental but is slow to decline, if at all and use by one person affects another.”

Following was the somewhat chilling statement “If you think you understand resistence, I haven’t been clear,” Dr Rosengren said.

The human medicine reality was, she stated “all major medical advancements are built on antibiotics, and that resistance is both increasingly common and serious.

“The implications for animal health and welfare and in particular sustainable intensification could be limited if no new molecules are developed for use in livestock. Human/public health will always trump animal health with ‘right to access’.

“Prolonging and protecting existing molecules is our only option,” Dr Rosengren predicted.

“Antibiotics are a societal resource and everyone who uses antibiotics has a responsibility. Agriculture is of course, a substantial user,” she said.

Delegates attended from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Colombia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, United States, Malaysia, Thailand, Panama, Argentina, The Dominican Republic and Nigeria and they were a lively bunch.

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“We must prioritise critically important antimicrobials, which are third and fourth generation Cephalosprins, Fluoroquinolones, Macrolides, and Glycopeptides.”

She concluded with a five step process to address the problems of resistance which were “recognition, responsibility, reduction, refinement, and replacement – vaccines, biosecurity, pathogen eradication, hygiene, ventilation and environmental control, genomics, immune modulators and feed additives,” she concluded.

Dr Stephanie Cottee, Global Poultry Welfare lead at Cargill, next spoke on ‘Poultry Welfare – the next five years of consumer expectations’.

With a long history of study in farm animal behavior and welfare with organisations like HSUS and at the University of Guelph she is well qualified to comment on future consumer expectations.

She introduced her talk by pointing out that McDonald’s has recently announced the phasing out of cage laid eggs in its 16,000 restaurants in the US and Canada over the next 10 years.

While she agreed that caged systems presented “bad aesthetics and that there is a body of welfare science showing that hens find barren cages behaviorally restrictive,” she pointed to the cost of transitioning from cage to aviary systems was estimated to be around $40 a bird or 36% more expensive than cage production.

She also pointed out that mortalities were higher in aviary systems due to a variety of problems.

In broilers she mentioned problems associated with the fast growth of modern genetics and also public concern over humane slaughter as well as better methods of euthanasia including the use of new captive bolt technology.

Dr Peter Scott, the CEO of Scolexia is well known in the Australian poultry sector and he presented a paper ‘Competition and shift of gut microflora when using organic acids and essential oils oils with micro-matrix technology’.

Dr Scott explained the importance of gut microbiota to gut health, he explained the ‘Metaorganism’ concept .

“Microbiota has evolved with the host in a highly adaptive, mutualistic relationship: the host has about 20,000 genes while microbiota has 100s of 1000s of unique genes.

“The microbiota greatly extends the ‘biochemical potential’ of the host and microbiota can be regarded as another ‘organ’- microbiota + host =

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Metaorganism,” Dr Scott explained.

“The significance of microbiota and gut health in poultry is that it affects mobilization of inaccessible nutrients, adsorbtion, storage, and energy harvest.

“Organic acid production assists host energy production and produces micronutrients such as Biotin and Vitamin K. “They assist with the competitive exclusion of pathogens, and are important in the formation of the immune system, and play a role in disease susceptibility and progression and modifies the quality of excreta and composting,” he stated Next Dr Scott spoke about the impact of matrix protected organic acids and essential oil blends in broilers on gut microflora and production.

He explained the function of synbiotics and described trials where three groups of birds were fed. (T1) normal broiler diets, (T2) normal plus protected organic acids and essential oils for poultry (Gallinat Plus 300g/T) and (T3) as T2 but 1.5kg/T. He showed the results and concluded that “the use of microflora analysis is very helpful in confirming the impact of sybiotics in poultry.

“Such studies can be used for label claim assessment by the appropriate regulator.”

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Enterobacteriaceae SPP at 14 days.

“There was an increased proportion of Lactobacillus spp at day 28 and in general the study sowed improved performance parameters.

“This study was conducted with healthy chickens – field experience suggests a greater response in high challenge situations.”

Dr Rolando Chavez (Chavez Balderas Consultants in Animal Nutrition Mexico) revealed some interesting statistics in feed and poultry production.

“Of the nearly billion tons of global feed production 47% will be for poultry.”

He quoted the simple staggering performance of modern layer genetics and increasing global egg production.

He concluded with stating his three key concerns for the future of poultry production which were avian flu, animal welfare issues and the direct and indirect effects of climate change on animal production.

Dr Victoria Druet from the University of Georgia US, examined the relationship between ‘Nutrition and Necrotic Enteritis’.

Key factors were ‘feed particle size, small grains/NSP, protein content, protein source, fat quality and calcium content.

Intestinal enivitonmental alterations to be considered were, “feed outages, cold stress, litter conditions, changes in feed, stress, stocking density, air quality and lighting, she said.

In summary Dr Druet stated “there does appear to be a correlation between feed ingredients and the incidence of Necrotic Enteritis – high calcium, high protein, high cereal inclusion and high animal protein inclusion”.

‘Pathogen loads and sanitation procedures’ was the topic for Dr Michele Guerin from the University of Guelph. She mentioned that the “chicken farmers of Ontario On-Farm Food Safety Assurance Program stipulated that there should be litter removal and dry cleaning after each flock and full disinfection once a year”.

The final speaker on day one was Dr Stephen Collett from the University of Georgia who has a particular interest in managing the health of the digestive tract to maximise bird welfare, nutrient assimilation and performance.

His paper was ‘The importance of gut health in intensive production systems’. The primary objective was to “optimize the economic efficiency of converting feed into human food”.

In summarising he stated that “intensification needed to balance

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efficiency with marketability and that gut health ensures both efficient performance and good marketability.

The following day started with a paper delivered by Dr John Fairbrother (University of Montreal).

Dr Fairbrother graduated with a BSc veterinary science from Sydney University before moving to the US, then Canada where he specialised in building up a research program on pathogenic mechanisms and the control of E. Coli causing diseases in animals.

In his paper ‘E.coli in chickens’ an examination of the pathogen itself and transmission routes, antimicrobial use and resistance was mentioned.

Concluding, Dr Fairbrother suggested that “resistance to plasmids containing genes for resistance to several antimicrobials can survive in E.coli or other bacteria in the pen environment between batches of animals”.

“Look at he big picture when assessing the situation, not just the antimicrobials used for enteric problems, and finally, high levels of chlortetracycline in feed may be a triggering/risk factor,” he said.

“However, there is the potential to use feed supplements to reduce the level of pathogenic E.coli and antimicrobial resistance in the intestinal microbiota.

“A decrease in resistance to some antimicrobials with time may be due to reduced antimicrobial use and there is a need to look at the big picture to set up suitable strategies.”

Dr Maarten Degussem, with long experience in many aspects of commercial poultry management, set up his consultantancy, Vetworks in Belgium to service poultry industries worldwide.

His paper ‘Bacterial Enteritis viscious circle – the latest’, looked at the importance of gut health in modern poultry production, negative gut health driver, the bacterial enteritis vicious circle and how to drive god gut health in the future.

“An opportunity for the poultry industry: we can do better than only using antimicrobial agents,” he said.

“There is a real threat of reducing welfare when ABF is applied blindly and bluntly and alternatives don’t only work against bacteria, but mostly also have other features that support gut health (as did AGPs).

“Alternatives, depending on the type, improve gut developmental physiology, modulate immune response of GALT, reduce oxidative stress,

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prevent initial damage, and improve digestibility.

“Reductions of antibiotic use has led to a paradigm shift in thinking about gut health and its relation with performance in the poultry industry.

“Therefore antibiotic reduction is not a liability, but an opportunity: yesterday’s ‘alternatives’ are today’s ‘standard’ – choose the right ones and you will be prepared for tomorrow,” Dr Degussem concluded.

Dr Marie-Lou Gaucher (University of Guelph) has studied the raising of broiler chickens without antimicrobials and more recently a focus on the role of Clostridium perfringens’ role in necrotic enteritis, and the impacts of reducing the role of ABs in poultry production.

Her topic was ‘So you want to go ABF, what will Clostridium have to say about that?’

Dr Gaucher explained an industry research project on eight broiler chicken farms with two rearing protocols, randomly assigned.

The conventional treatment involved antibiotics and anticoccidial drugs added to the feed: in the drug free program ABs and ACs were reomoved but three essential oil based products added to feed – drinking water acidification (pH4) , coccidiosis vaccination and improved brooding conditions.

Derek Detzler is Jefo’s Global Technical Services Manager (poultry).

He spoken at AMC/PIX about his experience raising broilers on his farm while reducing the use of antibiotcs.

His paper ‘10 years of antibiotic free broiler production’ commenced with the definition in Canada of ‘Antibiotic Free’ which means no Ionophore anticoccidial, no chemical anticoccidial and no antibiotic growth promotant.

Dereks’s strategy was based on the use of Coccidiosis vaccine, natural alternative products and enzyme use.

Derek described the management processes used but warned “expect a drop in FCR of between 4-8 points at 36-40 days, mortality rates of between 1 and 3% and a drop in growth rate of 1-2 days at 36-40 days,” he said Summing up he stated that “antibiotic free was possible with a coccidiosis vaccine and it cost more – but we got better and AGPs are less effective with use.

“There is a learning curve and a distinct microflora shift, also there is no magic bullet solution.

“Some alternative products help, but some make it worse, and that

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there will be breaks , but they can be managed.

“It gets easier, but only if you really commit to the change,” he concluded.

Dr John Smith, the Director of health and hatchery services at Fieldale Farms based in Georgia, US spoke on the topic of ‘Broiler placement density: impacts on performance’.

“It has been suggested that looser density aids are necessary for ABF production to reduce NE. “Looser density does improve performance but at the expense of profit per unit area,” Dr Smith said.

He then described three trials conducted to examine alternatives in ABF production.

In conclusion on the topic of stocking density and its relationship to NE he pointed out that, “vaccine companies recommend brooding density long enough to achieve early cycling and that early performance is often better at higher density.

“Adverse effects of density tend to occur later in the grow out and that NE generally occurs around the 16 day mark,” he said.

Dr Michele Guerin from the University of Guelf spoke on the topic of Colostridium Resistance.

She described the methodology of the surveillance project involving six major processing plants which represented 70% of Ontario’s broiler processing capacity.

“C.perfringens isolates were resistant to eight antimicrobials of importance to veterinary medicine, including those commonly used in feed, such as bacitracin.

“Clostridium difficile is responsible for C Diff associated diseases among hospital patients receiving antimicrobial therapy, with serious health outcomes.

“Spread through contaminated surfaces it produces at least one of two toxins: enterotoxin A and cyclotoxin B and additional virulence factors include

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3. Dr John Smith, Fieldale Farms. production of a third toxin, known as binary toxin,” Dr Guerin explained.

“Isolates were resistant to 11 out of 23 antimicrobials tested (47.8%), including tylosin and penicillin.

“Toxigenic strains from broiler chickens might be a source of infection to humans through retail meat contamination or direct transmission,” Dr Guerin concluded.

The final speaker on Day 3 was Dr Stephen Collett who gave a second paper in the conference ‘Making the shift to raising birds with less antibiotics’.

“Accelerating and rehabilitation of the evolution of the intestinal flora by seeding the gut with favourable organisms, feeding those favourable organisms and weeding out the unfavourable organisms, was the central strategy to reducing AB dependence,” Dr Collett said.

The conference concluded with a sum up by Derek Detzler and a long question and answer session where delegates had the opportunity to seek the advice from the experience of what were without doubt, some of the world’s best poultry scientists.

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Rabobank: Catching the next wave of growth Australia’s poultry industry is poised to ‘catch the next wave of growth’, but needs to focus on alternative strategies to capture new opportunities, rather than relying on increasing per capita consumption, according to a new report by agribusiness specialist Rabobank.

In the report Rabobank says strong growth – in both volume and value terms – is possible, but the Australian chicken meat industry should pursue the development of new export markets, higher-value propositions for consumers and productivity gains.

“Through the adoption of these strategies, our analysis indicates that the Australian poultry industry can achieve an average annual growth rate of 3.5% over the next five years,” said report author and Senior Animal Proteins analyst Angus Gidley-Baird.

“This represents a moderation from the lofty growth rates of 5.9% achieved in recent years, as the industry matures and domestic consumption stabilises, however it would still see production lift by around 40,000 tonnes per year – equating to an additional 109 million birds by 2021.”

The report warns that unless there is an expansion into new export markets, growth in the poultry industry will be linked to population growth, which is expected to be fairly lacklustre at around 1.17% per annum.

Despite being the cheapest protein, the Rabobank report says “chicken is not necessarily the first preference protein for a price-conscious consumer”. In Australia, consumers tend to trade down rather than move straight to the cheapest protein,” Mr Gidley-Baird said.

“With this consumer mindset the industry should look to expand its product offering by creating highervalue products, which could potentially add a further five per cent to the overall value of the industry.

“By offering consumers a point of difference or the ability to recognise some of their values in the product (such as animal husbandry or management identifiers) there is the opportunity to extract more margin out of the market,” he said.

“For example, an organic, branded chicken breast steak with lemongrass and ginger marinade could capture the customer at a higher price point.”

The report also highlights the rising social pressures for welfare-friendly and sustainable products such as slowergrowing birds or sustainably-sourced feedstocks, which will add additional costs but may not attract additional margins.

Developing new markets The report says an increase in exports, to around 10% of production, will be key to increasing volume and value in the Australian chicken meat industry.

“Currently, less than five per cent of Australian chicken is exported,” he said, “however there are significant growth opportunities in South-East Asia – such as Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia – as their per capita consumption increases.”

Mr Gidley-Baird says while it would be difficult for Australia to compete from a total cost perspective, there are opportunities to sell different cuts and therefore complement the total return per bird.

“For example, the US exports dark chicken meat and non-breast cuts into the Asian market, which is not only preferred by these markets, but complements the US domestic operations to provide a higher overall value return per bird,” he said.

Improving margins through productivity gains The Rabobank report identifies three opportunities to increase value growth in the industry through productivity gains: the adoption of new technology, realising economies of scale and relocation of industry facilities to centralised operations.

“Industry growth should not be confined to a conversation around production, but instead have a greater focus on profitability,” he said.

“For example, the implementation of new technologies such as improved monitoring to lift feed efficiency and improve air quality could lift productivity by five per cent. There are also opportunities for greater efficiency at the distribution level, with the use of sensors during transport helping to manage bird stress and welfare.”

Mr Gidley-Baird said realising economies of scale will also lower costs per unit, while relocation in the industry can reduce transport and

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Angus Gidley-Baird, Rabobank. logistics costs by co-locating graingrowing, milling, chicken-growing and processing operations – with industry hubs established in regional towns such as Tamworth and Griffith.

Though Mr Gidley-Baird declined to comment on the potential value of the proposed float of Inghams Enterprises by its current owners TPG, in a recent interview with Poultry Digest the possibilities for Inghams in corporate hands certainly came up.

The suggestions made to grow the Australian broiler sector by Mr Gidley Baird should be of interest to the revitalized management team at Inghams as it moves to being a listed entity.

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Antimicrobial resistance could threaten global economy and human health

By PETER BEDWELL On September16 the World Bank issued a statement in which it warned that antimicrobial resistance posed a greater threat to the global economy than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC).

Later The World Health Organisation joined the call for action: “Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the biggest threats to global health and endangers other major priorities, such as human development. All around the world, many common infections are becoming resistant to the antimicrobial medicines used to treat them, resulting in longer illnesses and more deaths. At the same time, not enough new antimicrobial drugs, especially antibiotics, are being developed to replace older and increasingly ineffective ones.

“Global leaders met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2016 to commit to fighting antimicrobial resistance together. This is only the fourth time in the history of the UN that a health topic was discussed at the General Assembly (HIV, noncommunicable diseases, and Ebola were the others). Heads of State and Heads of Delegations addressed the seriousness and scope of the situation to agree on sustainable, multisectoral approaches to addressing antimicrobial resistance,” the release from the WHO stated.

On ABC Radio National a report on Fran Kelly’s Breakfast program absolutely nailed the issue, it’s causes and solutions. Go to :http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/ podcast/2016/09/bst_20160921_0650. mp3 The problems, that no new ABs have been introduced for more than 30 years, over-use and inaccurate diagnosis in human medicine and the possible transference of resistance from animals to humans, are all well known.

The solutions are pretty obvious – develop new ABs, reduce inappropriate AB use in human health and reduce AB use in livestock through alternative management and replacement.

The problem is that, in Australia anyway, the population seems to

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operate based on what they don’t want to do rather than what they need to do, and this is reflected currently in a risk averse political class that is unwilling to take the measures necessary to solve this problem.

Poultry Digest has spent some time in conferences recently, the Jefo Poultry & Swine Tour in Canada, and the Feedworks Conference in Australia.

Almost all the papers were in some way associated with AB resistance, AB reduction/replacement and management strategies to adapt production in an era where antimicrobials aint what they used to be.

It is obvious from the information delivered at the Jefo event that both Canada and the US are further down the road on the issue of AB resistance than Australia, but we do appear to be heading in the right direction and we have the longer experience of North American livestock industries (and their huge resources) to learn from and adapt to our systems.

We also have access to a range of products developed by major companies like Jefo, DuPont/Danisco, Biomin and Alltech who have not only developed products to help with AB replacement or reduction, but also developed the management strategies to ensure their effective use.

Dr Leigh Rosengren, a veterinary epidemiologist, is one of Canada’s best and brightest when it comes to the whole question of AMR and its consequences. She was the second speaker at the Jefo Conference in Quebec on August 30th.

There was a room full industry experts and academics – yet just two slides neatly encapsulated the situation relating to AMR and livestock industries.

“If you think you understand resistance – I haven’t been clear,” was number one, followed by, “Sustainable intensification. Limited, if any, new molecules will be developed for use in livestock “Human/public health will always trump animal health with right to access.

“Prolonging and protecting existing molecules is our only option,” she warned.

Australia is well placed to deal with

the AMR situation in both human and animal health.

Though our population is one of the major consumers of ABs when compared to other developed nations, in the past we have responded well to public education campaigns.

Our farmers are well aware of the problems associated with AMR and our poultry industries in particular have already responded to the need to reduce dependence on ABs, in fact one mid sized broiler integrator (and growing) has been AB free for nearly two years – it can be done.

Our animal research capability is world class and our pork and poultry CRCs have completed excellent work on the issue and helped to develop new vaccines – a key element in any AB replacement strategy.

Instead of allowing these research institutions to simply disappear at the end of their terms, their existing structures could be used to do the science necessary to deal with the AMR problem.

The inevitable question in all of this is yes all well and good, but where does the money come from in an era of ‘budget repair’?

At the same time that the World Bank and other global institutions have warned about the seriousness of AMR, the Australian government has committed to the purchase of the US F-35 Strike Fighter, a plane that by all accounts is not only years behind schedule (and with cost blowing out by the day), it is also incapable of performing what it was designed for.

The cost of the 72 aircraft has risen to $17 billion and counting.

Producing our poultry products in Australia with less or no ABs will inevitably cost money.

Strategies like lower stocking densities, longer ‘clean out’ periods between batches and more labour input in the sheds themselves will involve investment.

No doubt consumers and retailers will respond to the appeal of AB free protein but will they be prepared to pay more?

Consumer groups, animal activists and some political players will no

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Alltech and Keenan join with Haier Financial Services to help China’s farming industry In September, Alltech, Keenan and Haier Financial Services, the financial subsidiary of Haier Group, signed a memorandum that aims to build a healthy agricultural ecosystem in China.

The three parties intend to establish a long-term strategic alliance and cooperation in the Chinese agriculture industry. Under the alliance, Alltech, a global leader in animal health and nutrition, will provide service to the farming sector through its expertise in animal nutrition innovation, including antibiotic-free feeding solutions, feed safety and traceability, and on-farm support services.

Keenan, an Irish-based company recently acquired by Alltech, will deliver its feed mixers and InTouch technology to China, while Haier Financial Services will offer financial and capital support to customers.

“In joining forces together through this collaboration, the companies hope to further sustainable agriculture in China, the world’s leading producer of animal feed,” said Alltech founder Dr Pearse Lyons.

“Trade missions are all about building relationships, and it is encouraging to see leading Irish companies such as Alltech and Keenan enhancing their presence in the Chinese market,” said Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D. “Alltech improves the health and performance of people, animals and plants through nutrition and scientific innovation, particularly yeast-based technology, nutrigenomics (the science of analysing nutrition’s impact at the genetic level) and algae,” said Dr Lyons.

“Having seen rapid growth in recent years, Alltech now has nearly 100 manufacturing facilities globally.

“For more than 30 years, Alltech has been involved in Chinese agriculture, with its office in Beijing providing nutritional solutions in animal production to the Chinese market for the past 22 years,” he said.

“During our time here, we have witnessed dramatic changes within the industry as China has grown to be the largest feed market in the world,” said Dr Mark Lyons, Global Vice President and Head of Greater China for Alltech.

“Today, as China pushes for

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Dr Mark Lyons (right), Global Vice President and head of Greater China for Alltech, with Jason Zhou (left), CEO of Haier Financial Services. LtoR at back: Ian Lahiffe, Business Development General Manager Alltech; Irish Ambassador to China Paul Kavanagh; Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed T.D. and Michael Cantwell of Enterprise Ireland. scale, efficiency, quality and safety, new investment and new thinking are required. Haier Financial Services’ financial support and Alltech and Keenan’s technical expertise will assist this transformation, and we are very pleased to be partners in this progress.”

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“Haier Financial Services is looking forward to working with Alltech to help China improve the agri-food system,” said Jason Zhou, CEO of Haier Financial Services.

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Steve Leeson returns for Novus Forum

Internationally renowned poultry industry expert Dr Steve Leeson from the University of Guelph, in Canada will return to Australia as a speaker at the Novus Poultry Master Class to be held in Sydney on November 21-22.

Novus Australia CEO Nick Nettle said that Dr Leeson’s “vast experience could be of great benefit to Australian poultry industry executives as both broiler and layer sectors go through a period of great change”.

Dr Leeson (pictured) will be joined by Rick Kleyn, industry consultant and poultry expert from Spesfeed in South Africa.

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doubt blame ‘factory farming’ and ‘greedy producers’ while shoveling ABs down their kids throats.

The increasingly high profile of the AMR problem in the media will inevitably lead to demands for farming to change its production systems. As an industry we must firstly demonstrate that we are aware of the problem and are already working on it with proven strategies.

However its an ‘all of the production chain responsibility’ from the feed mill to the retailer and at the end of the chain, the consumers themselves to practice safe food handling.

There is another upside to the AMR situation.

Angus Gidley-Baird, Rabobank’s Senior Animal Protein Analyst spoke at AMC/PIX 2016 about the challenges and prospects for Australia’s chicken meat industry.

In a nutshell if we want to continue to achieve or exceed the established pattern of growth for broiler production he stated that, “we needed to go beyond just supplying bulk commodity at ever lower real cost and consider value adding and more exports,” he said.

If AMR is a problem for Australia producers, it will be far more serious in growing Asian markets where the controls on AB use (and abuse ) are in general far less stringent than in Australia. Opportunities already exist in key markets like Hong Kong and Macau – the Kiwis have already proved that.

Growing markets in countries which already have more stringent AMR policies like Korea and Japan could be prepared to pay for a safe quality chicken product.

A growing export market would also put pressure on our big retailers to treat suppliers better.

The Australian beef industry can find ready buyers for its products overseas which is one of the reasons why beef (and lamb) is so costly in Australia.

The Australian broiler industry has proved to be adaptable to both consumer demands and production realities in the past and can do it again.

As an aside it is interesting to note that the Canadian government was one of the supporters of world bank and world health research into the AMR problem.

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Its fair to state that the issue is both complex and intriguing.

Dr David Cadogan (Feedworks) next discussed, ‘Reducing reliance on antibiotics: Feedworks due diligence’.

The aim of the exercise was to “offer cost effective alternatives to ABs to limit resistance so they are highly effective when required – and to keep the supermarkets happy,” he said.

He explained a number of strategies using a range of alternatives to ABs and looked at the dangers of adopting a limited approach to AB use reduction.

Prof Roselina Angel returned to deliver her second paper around the topic of ‘Mineral nutrition in developing embryos.’

‘Limits to growth in broilers skeletal development – embryo and neonate’ was the title of her paper.

“We have limits to animal agriculture. Animal production is a balance of sometimes competing objectives,” Prof Angel said.

“We want to optimise production but have to be aware of animal welfare and the best use of our available resources to achieve economic returns,” she said.

‘Big data, how to access and use it for profitable production in monogastrics?’ was the question posed

by Dr Stuart Wilkinson (Feedworks).

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“Idas accepts inputs from other sensors (i.e, temperature, humidity, ammonia) and can issue real time alerts for any of the key parameters of production, sent as SMS or emails to multiple recepients. It operates 24/7 access via computer, tablet or smart phone devices,” Stuart explained.

The Idas Industry Transferable Project was funded by the Australian Poultry CRC using eight tunnel ventilated broiler sheds, two x feed meters per shed, and water meters automatically uploaded data.

The Idas app can be used for max/min temperatures, bird numbers, placement, mortalities and culls.

“It enables informed decision making for marketing based on individual farms and sheds, improved management of feed deliveries and truck movements, silo inventories, and overall animal performance,” he said.

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The final segment of the day was introduced by Dave Cadogan as ‘Wheel - Barrows from the Poultry Research Foundation Blue Room’.

Dr Peter Selle was unfortunately unable to attend but his team of post grad researchers at the PRF delivered a host of new ideas placed firmly on the frontiers of nutritional science.

Christine Sydenham kicked off with her paper ‘The essentiality of nonessential amino acids’.

Ha Truong talked about ‘Feed grain quality asking ‘Are RVA starch pasting profiles predictive’?

Sonia Yun Liu, suspecting her work resulting in FCRs of 1.2:1 at 28 days might be met with some sceptisism entitled her talk ‘And pigs do fly’.

Amy Moss took the truly disruptive approach when she realised that her interest in enzyme cocktails involving trials using Phytase plus xylanase, protease, amylase, a-galactosidase, B-mannanase, lipase, arabinoxylanase, ferulic acid esterase, pectinase and other possibilities would lead to a full factorial design at two levels (with and without enzyme x/y/z).

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Called the ‘Design of optimum multifactorial experiments’ help you screen out unimportant factors.

Her talk was ‘Training wheels for the biometry of Dr Plackett and Dr Burman’.

So in just two days we learnt a huge amount about the potential of our scientists and the products they have developed. Feedworks conferences have set a consistent standard for great science well delivered.

However the social side (yes Malcolm loves his golf) and chance to meet up with new friends, catch up with old ones and enjoy the fine food and the odd libation is just as important.

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Isn’t it time for facts to dominate the biosecurity conversation?

By Dr GEORGE ARZEY, Poultry Veterinarian

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midst concerns about Avian Influenza it is understandable that sometimes fear and perceptions could trump facts although, for any biosecurity message to be effective it should be based primarily on facts.

Therefore, it is rather intriguing that in every AI biosecurity forum that I have attended since 2007, some respected colleagues seem to forget the facts about avian influenza outbreaks in Australia and point the finger at small non-aligned producers.

In a presentation to the AVPA in 2016, the need to enforce sound biosecurity policies among non-aligned producers was highlighted.

Earlier in 2010 in a forum assessing AI risk in small landholders it was reported that “poultry experts believe there is another sector of the industry which does not fall within the definition of commercial layer operation, have poor biosecurity measures and are not part of any integrated system (Small

landholders, commercial livestock producers and risks to Australian livestock Stakeholder Forum Report) One might think that biosecurity in the aligned sectors is optimal, that outbreaks of avian influenza are rare in this sector and it is the small nonaligned producers that ‘spoil it for everyone else’.

Suboptimal biosecurity is likely to present a risk regardless of the sector involved but the risk attributed to the non-aligned sector by some experts is disproportionate and technically ill-considered as it lacks factual consideration. This has the potential to hinder biosecurity acceptance by this sector.

Facts Biosecurity awareness Some sectors of the industry adopted biosecurity concepts very early (mainly poultry breeders) and some governments produced literature

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on ‘keeping disease out’ as early as 1986. The biosecurity concept started gaining momentum at the national level following the AI outbreak in Tamworth in 1997, the ND outbreaks in NSW between1998 to 2002 and reached some prominence after the emergence of the Bird Flu (H5N1) in South East Asia in 2004.

Biosecurity Management Practices and Procedures to reduce the risk of Avian Influenza outbreaks in the poultry industries was produced by Animal Health Australia in 1998. The first Code of Practice, Biosecurity in the egg industry was produced in 2001 and a National Biosecurity Manual, Contract chickens followed a year later.

A plethora of AI workshops and forums started in 2005 (NSW) and nationally in 2007.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in Australia Earlier outbreaks of HP AI were reported in Australia in 1976, 1985, 1992, and 1994, well before the importance of biosecurity in poultry was emphasised nationally. These early outbreaks were reported in a variety of commercial chicken enterprises, the smallest being a 17,000 breeder farm (1992).

No details of biosecurity audits on these outbreaks are available but significant biosecurity failures were mentioned in the literature that described some of these cases.

Since 1997 all HP AI outbreaks have been reported in large commercial flocks that were aligned with AECL and its Codes or with significant players in the meat industry.

1997 (Tamworth) - Large chicken complex of chicken meat breeders (company A) 1997 (Tamworth) – 30,000 chicken meat breeders (company B) 2012 (Maitland) - Large (50,000) layer enterprise. Member of AECL 2013 (Young) - Very large (400,000) layer enterprise (member of AECL) 2013 (Young) - 40,000 hens layer enterprise (member of AECL).

Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) in Australia All LPAI incidents that occurred in flocks of chickens or turkeys where

HEALTH FEATURE domestic ducks were not present on the farm were reported on large farms aligned to major industry players.

H6N4 – 2006 Sydney area, chickens, Company C H10N7- 2010 Sydney area, chickens, Company C H9N2 – 2012 Hunter area, turkeys Company B All other LPAI incidents in Australia since 1976 have been reported in either mixed duck and chicken enterprises (3) and duck commercial enterprises (7).

The risk of incursion of AIV into a flock and successful mutation would depend on the size of the flock.

Successful spread is also less likely in non-aligned enterprises than in integrated companies or large flocks just because of the low volume of movements from small farms.

These facts do not support the contention that the risk of AI in Australia is largely imposed by small non-aligned egg producers. If any conclusion can be drawn it is that Avian influenza viruses can be present in domestic ducks without showing clinical signs and can serve as a potential source for neighbouring chicken or turkey farms.

While domestic ducks can serve as a source of AI viruses for chickens and turkeys and indeed in the 1976 and the 1992 AI outbreaks, domestic ducks on neighbouring properties were regarded as a potential epidemiological source. Selleck et al (1997) in their paper in the Aust. Veterinary Journal, Vol 75, 1997 went even further stating that “The presence of antibody to H7 influenza A in chickens and ducks from neighbouring farms suggests that transmission from the duck farm to the chicken farm was responsible for spread of the virus”.

Both the National Farm Biosecurity Manual for chicken growers (point 2.16) and the National Farm Biosecurity Technical Manual for Egg Production (point 2.15) state that “If more than one commercially produced avian species is kept in the production area, the species should be housed and managed separately”.

The Manuals do not recognise the significantly high risk from domestic ducks and do not prohibit outright the presence of ducks and chickens/ turkeys in one production area. Instead they suggest that mitigations could be used to reduce the risk.

With this optimistic approach to biosecurity why would one expect small poultry enterprises (aligned or non-aligned) that mix different species of poultry in their production area to

recognise this risk?

Pointing the finger at non-aligned egg producers does not help to enhance the cause or help progress biosecurity in Australia.

The sincerity of the biosecurity message is judged not only by protocols and biosecurity manuals but largely by actions.

Gilchrist and Edwards (Biosecurity Post Mortem Report on the 1999 Mangrove Mountain Newcastle

disease outbreaks) emphasised that location and development of Industry enterprise standards have been based on economic consideration (rather than biosecurity) and this needs to be examined.

This trend continues with new, large poultry developments being placed either less than recommended distances from wetlands or/and water dams being built in alarming close proximity to sheds (only the Qld

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Guidelines, Meat chicken Farms specify individual hens in a flock increases. a minimum distance of dams from This is supported by the fact that the sheds). Farms are built with little regard only 2 HPAI outbreaks in Australia have to proximity to public roads (imposing a been in large to very large free range significant biosecurity risk through the layer flocks. haulage of live, and dead birds as well It was stated on July 7, 2015 during poultry litter). sessions of the USA Senate Committee To make it worse, some local on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, councils when deciding the fate of following the HPAI outbreaks in USA poultry farm development applications 2014-2015 that “scrupulous biosecurity (e.g. Wollondilly) still believe that practices may not fully protect against AIV is not present in Australia and AI. The poultry industry increased that “This is a matter for Customs, biosecurity after the 1980s HPAI the Commonwealth Department of outbreak.

Agriculture and the NSW Department “Other regulations, such as the of Primary Industries in regards to Food and Drug Administration’s Egg controlling imported livestock�.

Safety Rule, 36 require egg producers Far too often the ability of Industry to implement certain biosecurity to mitigate biosecurity risks is used as measures. But as the UEP (United an argument to circumvent minimum Egg Producers) witness pointed out in sensible separation distances between testimony, his farm, one of the largest significant recognised risks and poultry egg farms in Iowa, received a perfect sheds. score on a USDA biosecurity audit Optimal structural biosecurity of two months before being infected with poultry farms is often sacrificed under HPAI�. the belief that protocols and biosecurity The size of the commercial farms guidelines can prevent incursion of AI, that contracted avian influenza in the somehow ignoring the critical element 2014-2015 USA AI outbreaks suggests of biosecurity – human behaviour. that most of the affected farms were Economics trump biosecurity even not small rogue operators. In the when the risk of avian influenza in turkey sector these were company free range flocks is considered. While farms that, as the USA epidemiological ministers signed off on a new standard report concluded, generally followed for free-range stocking density allowing biosecurity protocols established by the 10,000 hens per hectare, somehow company and biosecurity policies on the fundamental modulator of a direct the affected farms may be typical for exposure between wild waterfowl and the industry. the recipient (chickens) i.e. flock size, is In the layer sector the first ignored as a significant risk. commercial flock was a flock of 112,000 As larger numbers of hens use hens (Kings County 12/2/2014) and the range daily, the likelihood of a on April 11, Jefferson County, 200,000 successful direct encounter between hens, followed on April 20 by a 3.8 Project1:PoltexAd2 21/03/14 3:47 PM Page 1million egg layers in Osceola County. wild waterfowl’s AI viruses and

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Bearing all these in mind perhaps it is time that a more factual conversation about biosecurity and AI risks dominate the discussion?

Perhaps it is time to consider the importance of structural biosecurity and the vulnerability of mitigations that rely on human behaviour. This should include examination of the location of drainage dams required by councils and their proximity as well as the proximity of other dams to poultry sheds.

Lessons should be learned also from the on-going ILT outbreaks in Victoria and NSW where proximity of farms to roads carrying poultry has been playing a role.

Proximity to roads has been recognised in the NSW Prime-Fact as a biosecurity concern (“Build sheds as far from the road as possible� -. http:// www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/ pdf_file/0007/526768/Poultry-healthkeeping-diseases-out.pdf).

All these risk elements must somehow be acknowledged and incorporated into the reality of biosecurity manuals and guidelines as well as poultry development guidelines.

Rather than conveniently pointing the finger at small, non-aligned operators, perhaps it is time for governments and Industry to examine the less convenient issues, like mixed farming, proximity of farms, proximity of dams and wetlands, proximity to public roads as well as the size of free range flocks.

Tegel: more market access to Australia Tegel Group Holdings Ltd is set to benefit from an agreement allowing the export of raw poultry products from New Zealand to Australia.

Tegel is NZ’s leading poultry producer, processing 50 million birds per year. Previously exports from New Zealand into Australia were limited to products that had been fully cooked.

In FY16, Tegel exported A$70 million worth of poultry to Australia, – a 1% market share.

The wider market access will allow for a significantly larger range of Tegel products to be exported into all segments of the Australian market.

Tegel will immediately apply for new import permits.

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Danisco launches Envira Pro At a time when antimicrobial reduction/ replacement is a ‘top of mind’ subject in livestock industries, the launch of Danisco’s Envira Pro Direct Feed Microbial product should generate plenty of interest for those seeking to reduce dependence on AMs. Backed by a solid period of both development and research, Envira Pro seems to offer a lot of opportunities for antibiotic reduction diets.

Dr Kirsty Gibbs from Danisco Animal Nutrition in the UK has a specialist microbiological background. Her PhD focused on the epidemiology, molecular and pathogenic characterisations of avian pathogenic E.coli (APEC) in broiler chickens.

A regular presenter at national and international conferences her work has been published in a number of journals.

Currently she provides support on the Enviva probiotic and Syncra ACI enzyme and biotic combination solutions for Danisco Animal Nutrition.

Her presentation ‘Envira Pro: Your Birds, Our Science’, at the recently held Feedworks Conference drew much interest from delegates.

“Current challenges in the poultry industry and avian intestinal tract, Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC) in broilers, a brief introduction to Envira PRO, epidemiology of APEC in Australian broilers including baseline research and the fact that “Camppylobacter is more than just a commensal”, were all mentioned as Kirsty introduced her paper.

(Go to:-http://www. gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/en/ glossary/commensal-bacteria/) Speaking about the evolving needs of poultry producers, Kirsty pointed out that the available ‘toolbox’ is changing, particularly with antibiotic removal.

In speaking about changing the production paradigm she pointed to the value potential between the ‘production frontier’ and actual commercial performance.

“Reduced performance and mortality could be caused by multiple factors including sub optimal digestibility, feed ingredient variation, high microbial loads, sub clinical diseases, environmental stress and clinic disease,” she said “The Avian gastro intestinal tract was a home of opportunity to create the essential balance including positive gut

microbes, and that microbial challenges were an important source of variability in production.

“Zoonotic species which reside in the GI tract include Salmonella and typically over 2700 serovars with a wide selection of hosts and a wide variation in virulence and etiology even within serotypes, nut zoonotic prevention programs are costly,” Kirsty pointed out.

“Campylobacter, historically considered commensal is the largest cause of foodborne illness. ““Avian pathogenic e.coli causes a syndromic infection known as Colibacillosis and the avian GI tract is the major APEC e.coli reservoir and in

some studies contributes to 50-70% of first week.

Having defined many of the potential problems contained in the GIT, Kirsty introduced Enviva PRO , “which is a multi-strain direct fed microbial (DFM) for broilers which is a three strain Bacillus DFM with in-feed application suitable for mash of pelleted feeds.

“It can withstand pelleting, has shelf life stability, can survive in the upper GI tract and delivers benefits to its host,” she said.

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enumeration with E.coli material shipped to the US. “Then APEC prevalence and predictive inhibition of three bacillus probiotic strains (Enviva PRO) were measured,” Kirsty explained.

“51% of total e.coli population sampled was identified as potential APEC. Campylobacter is not a harmless commensal of modern broilers and tradition control strategies, like vaccination, are not always successful so realistically any control strategy is likely to be a multi-pronged exercise,”she said.

“Probiotics in combination with multi enzymes reduced faecal shedding and extra-intestinal spread of Camplylobacter jejuni.

After revealing trial results demonstrating this claim, Kirsty showed FCR results from tests conducted in the US combining Enviva PRO with Virginiamycin and stated “the power of combinations extends further than just probiotics with multi enzymes”.

In concluding her presentation Kirsty said “the investigation of microbial populations in Australian broilers reveals that 50% of the total sampled E.coli population poses APEC risk and 10% were identified as high potential virulence.

“Some overlap of and genetic relatedness exists between US and Australian isolates (80%) and that

Enviva Pro Bacillus demonstrated efficacy (59-98%) against current regional microbial populations of concern,” she said.’

On the Friday 16 monogastric session of the Feedworks conference, ‘Synergistic effects between enzymes and probiotics: Sydney University results’ was presented.

Dr Kirsty Gibbs spoke about further research with the objective of evaluating enzyme/probiotic combinations on nutrient digestibility and growth performance in broilers fed complex Australian commercial diets.

“The hypothesis was that the addition of Bacillus probiotics to diets containing NSP meant that degrading enzymes will further improve performance and nutrient digestibility, and that 75,000 CFU/g DFM (direct fed microbes) will provide the maximum synergy with enzymes,” she explained.

“The methodology was to take 330 Ross 8 male chicks – 5 dietary treatments and 6 replicates with 11 birds per pen. Diets fed were 0-42 days wheat based diets in three phases (no AGPs included).

Commercial lighting, ventilation and vaccination programs applied, “ Kirsty explained.

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“In the case of diets containing just Axtra XAP ADG it was 79.9: XAP +DFM (75) 80.8.

“Performance results FCRc (0-42d) XAP 1.50, XAP + DFM (75) 1.47.

Her conclusions were that “performance improvements were seen following the addition of Envira Pro to diets containing exogenous NSPdegrading enzymes and that these results strongly suggest that Envirs Pro can improve Ca and P digestibility on top of phytase and Carbohydrase enzymes.

“The addition of 75,000 CFU/g Envira Pro is sufficient to enhance the action of NSP – degrading enzymes.

“No advantage was seen on performance, despite slight improvements in digestibility and this confirms previous findings.

“There needs to be continuous efforts to understand feed additive synergies and that there is a need for a gut health program approach,” Kirsty concluded.

Katrin Renz with EW Group Dr Katrin Renz, still an adjunct researcher at UNE, is now located in Cuxhaven in Germany, working with the giant EW Group’s vaccine producing operation, Vaxxinova.

In Australia on a brief holiday Katrin called in on Poultry Digest and reported that vaccine demand in the pig, poultry and aqua sectors, is just ‘going crazy’ in both Europe and beyond.

“Without doubt the serious moves away from reliance on antimicrobials is a driver of vaccine demand,” she said.

Speaking about options for Australian vaccine production, she suggested that some new thinking may be required as Australia is facing similar pressures over AM minimisation strategies.

Ever enthusiastic, she loves her work with Vaxxinova. “We are doing some really exciting stuff and have great resources”.

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Donald Elks, poultry pioneer dies: 1926- 2016 For those not familiar with poultry farming, chicken sexing might be an unusual sounding job, but for Don Elks, it was the first step in a pioneering career at the forefront of the industry in Queensland.

Don was born in Nambour and educated at the Beerwah State School, not far from his home at the Woodlands poultry farm. His father Joseph Elks and friend Albert Sudlow selected the land in 1913 after emigrating from England. Don boarded at Brisbane’s Church of England Grammar School, until called home to work at Woodlands when his father fell ill.

Through a family friend, he met Thelma Rideout, from Biloela, at the Cotton Tree camping ground and fell in love.

They married in 1954 and their union of 62 years led to four sons, John, Malcolm, Ian and Murray.

Don was one of the first chicken sexers in Queensland, a government-certified expert boasting a 98% accuracy rate for determining the sex of day-old laying chickens. The soughtafter skill commanded a penny a bird, and in 1954, Don and Thelma used the extra cash to buy Woodlands, at a price determined by an independent valuation.

Together, the pair transformed Woodlands Enterprises from a tiny operation to one now employing more than 200 people.

It is the largest privately owned chicken and egg producer in Queensland, hatching up to 420,000 day-old chicks and producing 1.2m table eggs weekly.

In 1972, Woodlands joined the Benfer family in Golden Cockerel, a chicken processing plant at Mount Cotton with 600 employees, supplying major supermarkets and restaurant chains.

Don was awarded the prestigious Noel Milne award for

HatchTech, HuaYu and Hy-Line build world’s biggest hatchery On September 6, HatchTech, HuaYu and Hy-Line officially signed a contract on the construction of world’s largest layer hatchery. Given today’s increasing demand for top-quality layer hens, HuaYu and Hy-Line have chosen HatchTech’s incubation technology for the project.

The hatchery will be built in Handan, in the Hebei province of China, and will have a total capacity of 55 million commercial layers per year. HuaYu and Hy-Line particularly appreciate HatchTech’s uniform incubation conditions, which result in uniformly superior chick quality. They believe HatchTech’s incubation technology will enable them to optimally meet customer demands, both today and in the future.

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service to the poultry industry in 2006.

Fiercely competitive and sport-mad (including captaining representative cricket teams in Beerwah), it was not unusual for Don to use hard-fought games of pool and table tennis to settle business negotiations.

In the 1970s, Don and Thelma were founding members of the Beerwah and District Memorial Golf Club. Don became a life member and patron there, and at the Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club. He was also a life member of Twin Waters Golf Club.

In 2012, Don was invited to become a Knight of Grace with the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, a global Christian organisation dedicated to charity.

Don was the beloved patriarch of a close family that is living proof of the ‘play together, stay together’ edict, forged in tennis, golf, fishing, holidays, red wine and costume parties. He would often say his family was his greatest legacy.

Don is survived by his wife Thelma, their four sons and their wives Judy, Maree, Elizabeth and Jacinta, and 10 grandchildren.

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Nuffield Australia announces 2017 scholars A hugely diverse range of Australia’s agricultural industries are represented by 23 leading young primary producers and managers who have been awarded prestigious Nuffield Australia Farming Scholarships for 2017.

These new Scholars will undertake cutting edge research into agriculture and fisheries across the globe using a $30,000 bursary for a 16-week program of group and individual travel during 2017.

The scholarships were announced during an awards gala dinner in September at the Nuffield Australia National Conference, held in Adelaide, South Australia, where more than 300 delegates from primary industries gathered to network and hear the latest research findings.

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concerns in egg production, prawn nursery technology, precision agriculture and the way forward for daughters and women in agriculture.

After returning from global study tours, each of the Nuffield Scholars will share their findings with other growers and stakeholders in their respective industries and communities.  Nuffield Australia prides itself in helping to build capacity for Australia’s food and fibre industries to be world-leaders in the adoption of the latest and most effective technology, best practice and innovation.

There are currently more than 380 Nuffield Australia Scholars who have developed significant insights into global agricultural production systems and continue to influence advances in their rural industries and communities.

Some of the 2017 Scholarship winners are: Jessica Pitkin, from Singleton, received a Nuffield Scholarship supported by RIRDC/Chicken Meat Research Committee. She will investigate environmental sustainability and a whole systems approach within the poultry industry, with a specific focus on alternative bedding sources and spent litter utilisation.

Daniel Meade, from Garvoc (near Warrnambool), received a Nuffield Scholarship supported by the William Buckland Foundation. He will investigate industry representation and the importance of agriculture to rural communities. He plans to closely examine the most successful agricultural bodies in the world and the learning opportunities that may apply to the Australian agriculture context as a result.

Chris Monnier, from Mornington, received a Nuffield Scholarship supported by the Australian Egg Corporation Limited.

He will investigate egg production systems, in particular, balancing consumer demand, population and consumption growth across cage, barn and free range systems.

Lara Ladyman, from Katanning, received a Nuffield Scholarship supported by CBH Group (WA). She will investigate the ‘Future of Food’, from the lab to paddock to plate, which is about the technologies or drivers of change that will shape how and what, we will be farming and eating in the future.Â

Turkey meat from USA A Biosecurity Advice has advised stakeholders of the formal commencement of a review to consider appropriate risk management measures for the importation of cooked turkey meat from the United States into Australia.

The Department of Agriculture will prepare a draft report, which will be issued for stakeholder comment.

A preliminary hazard identification for cooked turkey meat from the US has been undertaken and the majority of potential biosecurity diseases of concern identified are the same as, or similar to, biosecurity diseases for the Generic Import Risk Analysis Report for Chicken Meat (2008) for which import policy exists. Therefore, the market access request will be progressed as a review of existing policy, consistent with the Import Risk Analysis ​​Handbook 2011, with some additional considerations relevant to turkeys that were not considered in the Generic Import Risk Analysis Report for Chicken Meat (2008).

The next step is to prepare and issue a draft report to provide stakeholders the opportunity to comment on the analysis. A Biosecurity Advice will be issued to announce the draft report has been placed on the department’s website and to invite comments.

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Beef, lamb prices to push up returns for Australian poultry and pig producers Relatively high and rising prices for competing meats, beef and lamb, are expected to push up retail prices for chicken and pork in Australia, according to the country’s Department for Agriculture and Water Resources.

National production of poultry and pig meats are also forecast to increase, according to the latest quarterly Agricultural Commodities report based on data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).

With the average retail price for beef heading for AU$20 (US$15) per kilogram and lamb rising towards AUD15, pork looks good value at around AU$12 (US$9), especially as it has hardly changed over the last decade.

ABARES forecasts that the average price received by producers will increase by 4% in 2016-17 to average AU$0.380 (US$.285) per kilo. The forecast may be less welcome for producers, who enjoyed an increase of 15% over the past year.

These price rises have been possible despite annual increases in pork production in Australia over the last eight years.

Sow inventory has been on a gradual upward trajectory to an estimated 275,000 in 2015-16, and feed grain prices are forecast to remain low in the year ahead, helping to drive up the number of pigs slaughtered by 1.5% to 5.08 million in 2016-17.

With slaughter weights also creeping up, 385,000 metric tons is the estimated total carcass weight produced for the current year.

Despite increased production, Australian pork exports were down in 2015-16 in volume terms to 27,000 metric tons, largely due to the strong domestic demand. The value of those exports was up, however, by 17% to AU$119 million.

For 2016-17, ABARES forecasts the volume of pork exported likely to remain about the same, and the value to rise 4% to AU$124 million. The main destination for Australian pork has been and is likely to remain Singapore.

Under the country’s strict biosecurity rules, imports of pork are permitted only from certain countries, and the meat must be processed before sale.

Again, it was strong demand that led to more pork imports last year – by 4% to 167,000 metric tons – and a further 5% increase is forecast by ABARES for 2016-17.

As for pork, the consumption of poultry meat in Australia has been rising as beef and lamb have become more expensive over the last 20 years. ABARES figures show that for chicken meat alone, the retail price is now lower than in 1995-96.

Production rose 3% in 2015-16 to reach 1.15 million metric tons, and a further 4% increase to 1.20 million metric tons is forecast for the current year. The report highlights the rapid growth in poultry slaughtering in the state of Queensland – by 23% since 2010 – which is much faster than New South Wales or Victoria.

Over recent years, average carcass weights have been steady at around 1.86 kg.

With grain prices forecast to remain low in the year ahead, the average is expected to rise slightly this year as producers seek to increase the per-bird yield.

Papua New Guinea has traditionally been the leading destination for Australian chicken meat exports.

However, the government banned raw meat exports from Australia between April 2015 and February 2016, and the trade has not yet resumed.

With volumes also down to the Philippines, Australian chicken exports amounted to 26,683 metric tons in 2015-16, a 22 percent decline from the previous year.

Most exported products are offals, such as feet, kidneys and livers. For the current year, exports are forecast to increase again by around 2% to 27,300 metric tons.

Australian imports of chicken, on the other hand, have been growing over the last decade and reached a record 12,339 metric tons in 2015-16, with New Zealand the source of about four-fifths of the total. With demand continuing to strengthen, ABARES forecasts that Australia’s chicken meat imports will be 2% higher still in 2016-17.

Until very recently, Australian biosecurity regulations demanded that all imported meat was processed.

In August, New Zealand’s largest poultry company, Tegel Group Holdings announced that it had been granted access to the Australian market for its raw poultry meat.

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AECL: Hungry Jack’s makes a whopping error Australian Egg Corporation Limited (AECL) is disappointed with the announcement by fast food outlet Hungry Jack’s that it will cease using cage eggs in its products.

The decision demonstrates a misunderstanding of modern cage egg farming systems and the extent to which they impact hen welfare. It also does not reflect the fact that more than half of all Australians still choose to buy cage eggs because they are the most affordable egg.

AECL Managing Director James Kellaway said that if Hungry Jack’s had given priority to the available scientific evidence on this topic, it would never had made this decision.

“Today’s decision by Hungry Jack’s is driven by emotion and perception, not science or reality,” Mr Kellaway said.

While the egg industry supports cage, free range, barn-laid and organic egg farming systems, there are welfare advantages and disadvantages with each system.

The welfare benefits of cage farming are lower mortality rates, no

cannibalism, no soil or manure-borne diseases and no predation. These welfare issues are higher in cage free farming systems such as barn-laid and free range.

“Research clearly illustrates that hen stress levels vary very little across cage, barn and free range farming environments and that it is animal husbandry practices which have the greatest influence on hen welfare. (http://sydney.edu.au/news/84. html?newsstoryid=8876).

“The key to good welfare outcomes for hens is good farm management and we know that on well managed farms, there’s no real variation in hen stress levels across cage, barn and free range egg farming systems,” Mr Kellaway said.

“It is disappointing that science and reality has taken a back seat today and that Hungry Jack’s is applying an arbitrary standard which many, if not most, of its customers see no reason to apply when they buy their eggs at the grocery store.”

Cage eggs are an affordable form of nutrition which, on average, cost

around two dollars less per dozen than free range eggs (https://www.aecl.org/ resources/industry-statistics/).

“Free range eggs cost substantially more than cage eggs so the real question today is whether Aussies will end up paying more for their Whopper as a result of this ill-informed decision.

“There are advantages and disadvantages to each egg farming system and Hungry Jack’s decision clearly ignores the scientific evidence that proves this.”

AECL would also like to note that the industry continues to prioritise animal welfare and actively supports farmers to meet higher welfare standards.

The industry’s national Quality Assurance scheme, Egg Corp Assured, sets strict criteria to protect the health and welfare of hens and ensure the quality and safety of eggs across all farming systems.

A new video about University of Sydney research comparing stress levels in hens across the three egg farming systems can be viewed on this link: https://youtu.be/YCHqU2MWTxQ .

Pearse Lyons Accelerator program The Pearse Lyons Accelerator seeks to attract inventors, entrepreneurs and disruptors for its inaugural term.

Set to run annually for five years, the program is a three-month intensive boot camp for food and agribusiness innovators with a proven technology that is ready for market.

The program is designed to provide market opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop their fledgling agriculture, food and ag-tech plans.

So if you have a business with a proven technology but need a boost when it comes to export market access, financing or marketing, then this program is for you.

Select innovators will have the opportunity to present their innovations at ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, in May 2017, where more than 3,000 attendees from nearly 80 countries around the world converge.

This high profile showcase will afford the opportunity to present to future customers as well as investors and potential collaborators.

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With plenty of opportunities existing today in agriculture, farmers and producers need to be able to make decisions more accurately and scientifically with the help of ag-tech and big data.

The program seeks game changers in the ag industry and has opened for applications. Following a selection process, successful applicants will start the program in January 2017. ch is investing up to $10 million USD in the accelerator program.

Most of these funds will support the participation of select innovators in a three-month boot camp under the direction of Aidan Connolly, Chief Innovation Officer at Alltech, and other fellow industry mentors. Mr Connolly is an adjunct professor of marketing at University College Dublin and China Agricultural University and is passionate about the commercialisation of innovative ideas and technology.

“Entrepreneurs have the potential to discover solutions today to meet the challenges of tomorrow,” he said.

“The Pearse Lyons Accelerator

aims to discover the brightest ideas in agriculture, food and technology, and we want these future ag-tech entrepreneurs to be fully equipped to develop successful, sustainable businesses.

Alltech is one of the few truly global companies positioned to assist in opening doors, such as routes to market and worldwide market access.”

The program aims to inspire entrepreneurs and contribute to the success of projects already in their final developmental stage.

It will act as a stimulation platform, putting innovators in touch with highly skilled mentors and industry connections. Alltech, a leading innovator in animal health and nutrition, aims to build an innovation legacy and position itself as THE technology leader investing in food and agribusiness.

Applications are available now and close November 11, 2016. For more information and to register please visit Alltech.com/Accelerator and stay connected through Twitter and Facebook.

NEW PRODUCTS Asian poultry veterinarians meet for latest updates on health issues in Manilla On October 20-21, Asian poultry On the second day, researchers veterinarians and poultry health from the region will share their latest scientists will be meeting in Manila, findings with delegates.

The Philippines to listen to experts “This is the third of our Asian from around the world speak about the meetings,” WVPA President, Nigel latest developments in the diagnosis, Horrox, said, “and it has already treatment, management and control of become a ‘must attend’ meeting for poultry diseases. those involved in all aspects of poultry Diseases being covered include health in Asia. avian influenza, Newcastle disease, coccidiosis, colibacillosis, necrotic enteritis and pasteurellosis.

The first day features technical presentations from the regional and The NSW Poultry Industry Golf Day global veterinary experts within the will once again be held at the Camden commercial companies who are Lakeside Country Club on Wednesday supporting the meeting as well the October 19. prestigious Asian Avian Pathology A great afternoon of golf is promised Lecture. with a shotgun start and ambrose forThis year’s Avian Pathology Lecturer mat, except for golfers with a handicap is Prof Aini Ideris from Malaysia who will who will compete for the Jock Smith be reflecting on the recent advances on trophy.

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“We are looking forward to another good Asian meeting with plenty of new information and networking opportunities.”

For further information and to book your place at this conference please contact Mildred Esquillo of WVPA’s Philippines Branch at deltaman. mildred@gmail.com

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Roxell optimises Minimax broiler feeder Rising feed costs put returns on broiler houses under increasing pressure.

Every extra gram of feed wasted by a broiler means loss of income for the farmer.

More and more poultry farmers are therefore switching to efficient and wellconsidered house management.

Today’s poultry farmer is looking for qualitative, innovative solutions that optimize the feeding process.

That is why Roxell, one of the worldwide market leaders in feeding and drinking systems for poultry farms, is expanding its line of broiler pans with a new version of MiniMax. MiniMax was launched on to the market 30 years ago as a popular feeding system.

The launch of the new MiniMax marks another major step in Roxell’s

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Roxell’s innovation team used the existing design of the MiniMax as basis and set out to optimise the feeding system based on the input of customers.

This is a feeding system with an eye for feed conversion and animal interaction.

“Maximal and optimal access to the feed, minimal feed waste, and an easyto-clean pan, these were the starting points for the new MiniMax innovation process,” said Benedict Huysman, Roxell Product Development Supervisor.

“For broilers the start-up of the flock is crucial. The low pan height of the MiniMax (60 mm – 0.2 ft) promotes rapid, controlled growth of the animals,” he said.

The 360° feed flow keeps the MiniMax filled with feed at all times, resulting in optimal feed intake.

The high anti-waste rim and the stepped feeder pan minimize feed waste.

Authorities are imposing increasingly stringent requirements on housing hygiene.

The innovative cleaning system facilitates cleaning of the feeding system.

The patented click system exposes all components for cleaning: from the inside of the cone to the pan.

In brief, MiniMax meets the demands of productive poultry farmers said Mr Huysman.

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