Poultry Digest February/March 2019

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Australian Poultry Science Symposium 2019: the 30th APSS event The 30th Anniversary Australian Poultry Science Symposium was held at the Sheraton Grand, Sydney Hyde Park from Feb 17 to Feb, 2019.

On February 17, Agrifutures ‘Chook Chat Shack’ (a combined initiative of Agrifutures Chicken Meat, Australian Eggs and Poultry Hub Australia) held a two hour seminar to showcase research projects involving the Chook Chat Shack partners.

Georgie Townsend from Agrifutures introduced the speakers and welcomed delegates.

Natalie Morgan from UNE spoke about Arabinoxylan digestion and utilisation in broilers.

“Selective fermentation of XOS can induce changes to composition and activity of gut microbiota, improving bird health: XOS therefore fulfills the definition of a prebiotic.

“Could XOS provide prebiotics to the GIT ecosystem?” Natalie asked.

Other beneficial functions she mentioned were ‘optimising colon function, changing amount and ratio of short chain fatty acids (SCFA), increasing mineral adsorbtion, immune stimutation and increased ileal villus length,” she said.

The key conclusion from her research was that “Xylanase research should concentrate on optimal XOS production rate and that there is a need to focus more on insolunble xylan and tailor xylanase application to requirements,” she stated.

Sonia Lui, from the University of Sydney, who recently won an Endeavour research fellowship presnted ‘My six month experience in Arkansas’ studying the vast US broiler industry, as her subject.

“In 2017 in US $ terms the industry generated US$30.23 billion.”

Sonia worked with Dr Mike Kidd, Director and Department head at the University of Arkansas Centre of Excellence for Poultry Science, on five study projects vital to improving broiler nutrition and improved efficiencies.

Shubiao Wu from UNE reported on his research project ‘Historical flaws of ME bioassays for poultry - a critical review’.

He identified feeding regimes, measurement of ME in ingredients and flaws in calculations, inconsistent

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standard AME values, forcing feeding to measure AME and ignored synthetic AA contribution as energy yielding ingredients.

“All these factors combine to generate inconsistency of ME bioassays in poultry,” he said.

Next Professor Bob Swick from UNE spoke about the implementation of a net energy system for laying hens.

First he described the closed circuit calorimeter built at UNE, and how it works by using linear regression used in the prediction of NE based on the chemical component in feed.

“Equation is applied to feedstuffs, then NE values are used to formulate with different equations for broiler and layer diets: both use AMEn, with crude protein (negative) and fat (positive),” he explained.

His conclusions were “equation developed to predict net energy of raw materials based on AMEn, protein and fat.

“Higher NE:Men formulation (more fat; less protein) improves FCR, egg weight, egg mass and yolk colour, and that the cost per kg of egg depends ultimately on the oil price, “ he said.

The next event was the Phytobiotics workshop introduced by Judy O’Keefe of Surefeed.

Kym Miller from National Feed Solutions, the Australian distributors for Phytobiotics, welcomed attendees and Mike Boddington, the SE Asian/Oceania Region Manager introduced the species manager for poultry at Phytobiotics Dr Anja Paster.

Anja introduced her presentation quoting research by Gessner et al, 2016 “inflammation is the normal protective and usually temporary response of the innate immune system to pathogens or injury,” she said.

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The Grate Debate has now become a regular event in the preamble to the serious poultry science delivered over the ensuing three days of presentations.

For those ancient enough to remember the ‘Grate Debate’ is like a cross between ‘The Brains Trust’ and The Goon Show’ – famous programs that once ran on BBC radio.

Sponsored by EW Nutrition, Jurek Grapinten, EW’s Regional Manager introduced the two teams.

The ‘government ‘ led by Bob Hughes was ‘assisted’ by Tamsyn Crowley and Carolyn De Koning while the ‘opposition’ was led by Peter Selle had Natalie Crystal and Amy Moss.

“That the production of eggs and chicken meat should be politically correct,” was the topic introduced by the adjudicator Peter Crystal who was attired like an escapee from ‘The sound of music’ film set.

Rapier wit was deployed by both sides and Poultry Digest can’t remember the conclusion as a rowdy throng descended on the Poster area for much anticipated refreshments.

On February 18 the Symposium was officially opened by Judy O’Keefe of Surefeed and the President of the Poultry Research Foundation followed

by Iain Young, Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Sydney and finally Peter Groves, Director of the Poultry Research Foundation.

In the opening session, ‘Global Poultry Nutrition’ the keynote speaker was Rick Kleyn –Spesfeed P/L South Africa – ‘Practical views on global meat chicken production’ was his topic.

Introducing his presentation Rick, an animal nutrition specialist with over 30 years experience and a global client list pointed out that “world wide the poulry industry is flourishing and is a

vital source of protein.

“Meat is an aspirational food for poor communities offering opportunities for producing innovative and diverse products,” he said “Poultry is a highly efficient protein source but increasingly our industry is in the public eye.

“Important is the fact that livestock and in particular poultry relies of the conversion of food crops to protein – the demand for poultry meat will double by 2050.

“Animal agriculture places pressure on the environment creating demand for scarce resources, the emission of pollutants and uses about 70% of all agricultural land.

“Further, it contributes between 15% and 20% of greenhouse gases (GHG) though poultry accounts for only 4/5% GHG,” Rick explained.

“The poultry industry is justifiably proud of its performance yet our customers, in general dislike our methods, fundamentally misunderstand us, and we them.

“Sustainable animal production reduces loss and wastage, improves feed efficiency, achieves better life time

performance, uses less carbon fuel and can utilise food waste like bran and SBM. “To many consumers ‘sustainable’ means organic,” Rick said.

“Historically, organic farming leads to the destruction of prime agricultural land and restricting ‘input’ chemicals generates insufficient condition for sustainability, therefore alternative systems are basically far less efficient.

Next Rick raised the topic of ‘slow growing chickens’ that have not only become popular in developed economy but mandated in some areas of the EU. “If one third of the US broiler industry switched it would require 1.5 billion broilers a year, require three million hectares of land to grow the necessary feed and generate an extra 12 million tons of manure (Peterson, 2017).

“To grow a 2.2 kg bird at 56 days GHG and land usage would be up by 37%, N pollution increase by 115% , P by 77% (Tallentire et al. 2018) “The reality of poultry production was that consumers demand cheap, safe, uniform and unblemished food CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 w

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Signifcant investment in 10,000 tonnes per week feed mill at Murray Bridge in South Australia.

Ingham’s new Murray Bridge feed mill opens

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n February 20, 2019 Poultry Digest attended the official opening of Ingham’s new Murray Bridge feed mill in the presence of the Premier of South Australia the Hon Steven Marshall, and the CEO of Ingham’s Mr Jim Leighton.

Also in attendance was the mayor of Murray Bridge, Brenton Lewis, ministers from the South Australian government and senior members of Inghams management.

Premier Marshall was extremely enthusiastic about the new mill, the

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jobs it has created and the potential growth of the chicken meat industry in his state.

“Hundreds of South Australian jobs have been created as part of the Inghams Group Limited’s $279 million state wide expansion.

“The centre piece of the expansion, a state of the art feed mill at Murray Bridge, is just one aspect of the project which fuels economic growth and has created jobs through an increased production capacity,” he said.

Premier Marshall said that Ingham’s $279 million statewide expansion is a major jobs boost for regional South Australia.

“Regions are the backbone of South Australia and projects like this are crucial to driving economic growth and creating jobs,” he said.

“Ingham’s investment has generated 650 construction jobs alone, with another 850 jobs through the supply chain.

“This government is committed to backing business so that companies like Ingham’s can invest in our state with certainty and create real and lasting jobs.

CEO Jim Leighton stated that

the significance of introducing fully automated facilities into milling operations has a very positive impact on production capacity.

“Ingham’s has always been at the fore of innovation and we’re proud to continue to deliver on that with the introduction of the most advanced feed mill of its kind in Australia,” Mr Leighton said.

“The Murray Bridge feed mill is the first to first to offer fully automated facilities in production and increases Ingham’s feed capacity in South Australia to 11,000 tonnes per week.

Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, David Ridgeway, said, “the development makes South Australia one of Ingham’s most important national centres.

“Ingham’s already employs 1850 staff in South Australia and on the back of this expansion there is great optimism that this number will grow in the coming years,” said Minister Ridgeway.

“Chicken meat production and processing is the fastest growing livestock industry in South Australia with more than 160,000 tonnes shipped interstate last financial year and we trust

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Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Tim Whetstone, said “that the benefits for the Murray Bridge and Riverland regions are extremely significant.

“An estimated $235 million of the total capital expenditure will occur in these regions, providing a major boost to their local economies,” he said.

“This includes this amazing feed mill but also an expansion of hatchery and breeder farm operations and approximately nine new or expanded grow-out farms.”

Jim Leighton thanked both the Premier and Mayor of Murray Bridge for the co-operation and assistance the company had received and how it had contributed to achieving the expansion Ingham’s needed to achieve its aims in South Australia “The mill’s capacity will integrate into an overall system of agriculture in South Australia including our own growing production capacity.

“The $49 million invested in this state of the art feed mill, joins a number of projects we are undertaking, including new hatcheries which will make Ingham’s more competitive in Australia’s competitive protein market and meet the demands of consumers.

“Ingham’s is a one hundred year old company that has undergone considerable growth and our new Murray Bridge feed mill is part of our upgrade and expansion program that will prepare us for the next 100 years.

“We intend to source our raw materials within South Australia and the new feed mill will deliver better efficiencies, not only to our chicken meat business but also offer a competitive source of quality feed to other livestock industries in the region,” Mr Leighton told Poultry Digest.

The new facility is highly automated and can be run 24/7 by minimal numbers of permanent staff.

It is capable of handling 40 trucks an hour through the advanced loading structure.

In a deal reported in the Australian Financial Review in late May 2017, Ingham’s sold the new mill to CorVal Partners, a leading property syndicate for a reported $53 million.

“Corval is expected to acquire the property on an initial yield of 7.15% and hold it in the CorVal Ingham’s Murray Bridge Trust,” the report stated.

The new feed mill is leased to Ingham’s on a 25 year basis with options to extend.

South Australian Ahrens Group, a long established family business with expertise in large scale industrial projects, completed the project on the 2.35 hectare site over a two year w period.

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The company is a leading supplier of grain handling and storage solutions for agriculture in South Australia and elsewhere, offering turnkey solutions from concept, design and complete construction.

The Managing Director of Ahrens, Stefan Ahrens, was present at the official opening of the Ingham’s feed mill with Mark Smeaton, Ahren’s Construction Director.

The feed mill equipment has been supplied by the Buhler Group, a Swiss family owned business that operates in 140 countries with a global network of 30 production sites.

Torsten Rohrbeck, the Area Sales Manager for Australia/Oceania gave details of key feed milling products supplied to the Murray Bridge facility.

The single shaft paddle mixer unit’s key features are a constant capacity, high levels of operating safety, excellent sanitation, a short discharge time, designed for minimal maintenance and also minimum residues.

The Vertica Hammer Mill’s key advantages are a typically 25% saving in energy costs, little or no moisture loss, short change over times, low maintenance requirements and noise levels maximum 83dB (A).

The Buhler crumbler/cracker DFZL is economic, flexible and robust and its modular design can be customised to specific customer requirements.

The Buhler Kubex T pellet mill has been developed for high capacity pelletising of animal feeds and delivers typical energy saving of up to 30%, variable die speed, up to 585 kw motor power, belt and gearless drive systems, 360 degree accessibility.

“It is considered to be the world’s most compact design for such equipment,” the company said.

Apart from Poultry Digest there was a broad representation of Australia’s mainstream media at the event.

Premier Marshall demonstrated considerable skill and patience in handling not only the topic of what the new facility meant for the South Australian and Murray Bridge economy, but faced questions unrelated to the event itself.

One topic raised that would be of interest to the poultry industry and South Australia’s grain industry was the fact that SA’s moratorium on GM crops was under review.

Some time ago, after Wesfarmers acquired Coles and pressure built up on suppliers to reduce their margins, there were comments made in the financial press by key players in ‘big retail’ that their suppliers needed to invest more in their businesses to stay competitive.

Ingham’s investments would surely answer such commentary from Australia’s very competitive retail sector.

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1. A good media scrum for the official opening. 2. CEO Jim Leighton with Premier Marshall (left) who was full of praise for Ingham’s commitment to SA. 3. An elevator ‘boot’ from Buhler equipment. 4. Mark Smeaton with Stefan Ahrens.

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Alltech nutrition seminar follows APSS 2019 Alltech held an evening seminar at Doltone House on February 20 near the Sheraton Grand, the venue for the 2019 APSS event.

The Roundtable dinner, ‘Focusing on poultry nutrition and performance’ was the theme for the event.

Alltech’s Nathan O’Brien opened the event and welcomed attendees.

Dr Lucy Waldron from LWT Nutrition NZ was the first speaker and her topic was ‘The Development of total replacement technolgy diets’.

“The history of mineral use in feed has revealed a lack of research over the last 40 plus years, and was based on cheap inorganic minerals and extrapolation of other species and ages with data only available in poultry for up to 21 days,” Dr Waldron said.

“Major changes in recent times have been an increase in minerals affecting ground/drinking water like copper, zinc, and phosphorous.

“BSE drove the change to vegetarian diets in certain regions and the use of phytase changed feed formulations.

“Issues regarding excretion in litter and disposal arose and finally research into bioavailability of key minerals.

“Then came the advent of chelated minerals,” Dr Waldron said The impact of enzymes in feed has been significant; phytase releases bound minerals from complexes – 600 units of phytase will provide around 10% of the zinc needs for a young broiler, for example.

Dr Waldron went on to describe early replacement trials run by Steve Leeson in Canada back in 2004.

Bioplex minerals on broilers housed on litter to 42 d.o. reduced to 14% or 7% of total inorganic minerals use.

“Conclusions from these early trials revealed a significant reduction in excretion of minerals with no difference in broiler performance with low levels of organic mineral replacement.

“In layer hens there was no performance reduction in manure content Zn and Mn and 11% reduction in Cu. “Excretion rates in layers for Bioplex the same as for no added minerals,” Dr Waldron stated.

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Diet 3 using organic Bioplex zn30ppm, Mn30ppm, Cu5ppm, Se

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0.2ppm. The results were that mineral diets increased eggshell breaking strength (P<0.05).

Higher bone strength 155.90 N vs.

108.66 (P<0.05), Tibia Ca in organic group 184.5 g/kg vs. 179.8 g/kg inorganic (P<0.05).

The next speaker was Steve Elliot, Global Director, Mineral Division Alltech who spoke about ‘Trace Minerals: essential nutrients for optimal performance’.

“Using more is not the answer with inorganic trace minerals,” Steve said as he revealed mineral management strategies.

“Data revealed in trials indicated that oxidation of lipid in poultry diets increased feed and decreased gain to feed ratio of broiler chicks.

“Dietary supplementation of organic minerals even at a lower inclusion level, (25% of inorganic levels) increased growth rate, feed intake and gain to feed intake and gain to feed ratio of chicks. The meat Se concentration was increased by using the organic Se source.

“Therefore, the data showed that the negative effects of feeding rancid, oxidized oil can be ameliorated by feed organic mineral sources,” Steve concluded.

John Cooper, the UK and Ireland Poultry Technical Manager has 23 years of experience working with poultry and five years with Alltech.

“The Chicken By Design can eat, poop, fly and lay an egg and this means a short digestive tract, limited retention time on fed, eats and drinks from anything: feed, nutrient form and intake is crucial to breeding and hatching egg quality,” he said “Gut health is the limiting factor to poultry performance,” he added Challenges associated with broiler breeders are regulated feed intakemeal feeding, pathogen reduction, seperation of breeder and offspring then vaccination schedules and maximising maternal antibody transfer to the cick,” he said.

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Actigen is able to support immune defense, gut microbial health and gut function and development, thereby promoting overall health and performance.

By supporting the animal’s immune and digestive system it is possible to remove antibiotics one at a time and allow for periods of adjustment,” John said.

There was a lot of great material delivered in each of these papers and those interested in the full details should contact Nathan O’Brien, the National Sales Manager at Alltech – nobrien@ alltech.com At the Australian Poultry Science Symposium attendees heard from a number of keynote speakers about layer hens going out to 100 + weeks in lay.

This being so, there will be a clear need to address the prolonged

LtoR: Jorge Pena, Andreas Kocher, Tugrul Durali, Nathan O’Brien, Steve Elliot. pressures on hen health and by extension egg quality.

Similarly in the broiler sector in Europe and the US there is both consumer and some regulatory pressure

to raise slow growing broilers.

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Gary Sansom Scholar’s research a global game changer for chicken breeding University of Adelaide PhD student Joshua Angrove has been awarded the the 2019 Gary Sansom Scholarship for his research project on the influence of the maternal environment on how meat chickens grow.

The scholarship is named in honour of the late Gary Sansom who was a former AgriFutures Chicken Meat Advisory Panel Chair and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation President.

Mr Sansom was a long-standing supporter of programs encouraging new people into the chicken meat industry and championed numerous initiatives aimed at keeping Australia at the forefront of industry best practice.

The scholarship will allow Joshua to investigate how the nutrition and environment of the hen influences how efficiently her progeny grow.

The outcomes of Joshua’s project will have a positive impact internationally because the breed of chicken used in Australia is also produced around the world. Production gains identified in this project can be replicated elsewhere, which is an exciting prospect for the budding scientist.

“It’s an honour to be selected as the 2019 Gary Sansom Scholar. I’ve put a lot of effort into my work over the past 12 months and it is incredibly rewarding to have the potential impact of that research recognised,” said Mr Angove.

“It’s a credit to the vision of the AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program that they see the value in supporting young

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researchers to become leaders in the chicken industry and it provides motivation for young researchers to keep going and get through their PhD. “For me, the opportunities this award presents is worth more than the value of the scholarship itself.”

AgriFutures Australia Manager, Research, Georgie Townsend said the scholarship supports future leaders to make their mark on the industry by undertaking novel research.

“Joshua’s project clearly demonstrates the Australian industry is not afraid to invest in bold research, not just for the benefit of the Australian industry, but the chicken meat industry globally,” said Ms Townsend.

The prestigious Gary Sansom Scholarship recognises high quality students, fosters a career pathway in the chicken meat industry and supports industry relevant research.

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This statistic alone clearly defines VIV Asia as a truly international event, and there were plenty of participants from Australia and NZ. China once again dominated in visitor numbers after Thailand, with increased participation from SE Asian countries including Cambodia.

The were 1245 exhibitors from 62 countries, a 17% rise over the 2017 event.

The educational and informative seminars were attended by 5396 visitos over the three day period.

‘The AMR: from science to policy’, presented by the Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations (FAVA) was a popular choice with 231 attendees.

Food Engineering, including processing and handling, represented 10.5% of the VIV Asia 2019 total show space, a 93% increase compared too the 2017 event.

Other dominant segments of the trade exhibition halls were Farm Production at 24.5%, Breeding and Hatching at 6%, Crop Tech and Feed Tech Solutionsat 6%, Feed Ingredients and Additives at 37%, Animal Health Enterprises at 14%, and Media/Consultancy companies at 2%.

The use of smart phone friendly digital technology, both to source information and in the registration process, made for a faster and more organised show entry process without the long queues that were sometimes a feature of previous VIV Asia events.

The completion of the skywalk from Bang Na BTS Skytrain station to the BITEC exhibition building made the trip from Bangkok’s Hotel belt in Sukhumvit a much more pleasant and speedy process too!

VIV Asia certainly owes its success to the proactive and innovative industry that works hard to improve itself and promotes excellence within the value chain throughout the years.

As a way to acknowledge the importance of showing continuous dedication and passion for the industry’s developments and the VIV events, VIV worldwide, together with Positive Action

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by Ruwan Berculo, Director VIV Worldwide (left) and Nigel Horrox, Postitive Action Publications (right).

2. Mike Pritchard, Alltech with Tony Pearson, Lanxess on the Virkon S stand. 3. Tara Tiller, Alltech. 4. Vittorio Bernardi, EW Nutrition. 5. Jonathan Leslie, Special Breeders Australia.

6. Jan Wesjohann, Managing Director, EW Nutrition.

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NEWS Publications, once again hosted the Asian Personality Awards, during the opening ceremony of the show.

The five personalities acknowledged this year were: Rafael Monleon, formerly of MSD and now Aviagen, Noplit Sermsaksasitorn, Axel Arras from FPT, Alain Recroix, and Prof Thaweesak Songserm.

In recent years the range of farming activities and species related segments grew from the original concept of poultry and swine, the predominant protein sources in the Asian region, to include aqua, companion animals, some dairy and even horiulture.

For the 2019 event it was back to the foundation species plus some acqua related displays and seminar topics.

The VIV Jaarburs team seem to have got the mix right because the 2019 event was a raging success.

First time visitors like young Sam Platts, Commercial Development Manager at Global Nutrition’s regional Bangkok office, was stunned by the number of visitors that visited their stand from the opening of the doors on day one.

“It far exceeded the traffic we experienced, even at a busy show like Eurotier,” he told Poultry Digest.

The often frantic activity, (in comparison to some of the major trade exhibitions like Eurotier and our own AMC/PIX events) does sometimes require a different approach when trying to apportion time to achieve meaningfull conversations with key prospects.

Poultry Digest has found it beneficial to use the food and restaurant areas to achieve a calmer environment for discussion.

Much improved at VIV Asia 2019 was the food situation with the novel food truck area and the Rooftop café (with robotised Singha beer dispensers).

So what was new at the 2019 event? The simple answer is big data.

Poultry Digest attended a seminar where Evonik and Optfarm presented strategies to run poultry farms using all the tools that have recently emerged in the digital age.

Out in foyer area of BITEC there were numerous exhibitors offering data management programs suitable for intensive livestock producers seeking an entry into improved efficiency through data collection and application.

Poultry Digest caught up with Richard Rayner who recently retired as the head of Special Breeders Australia.

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1. Emillie Fontaine and Jean Francois Fontaine from Jefo. 2. Ian Atterbury, Devonish. 3. LtoR: Mark McLean, Riverhaven; David Plant, Wayne Bradshaw, Jefo; Paul Burne, Milne Agrigroup; Avril Grieve, Jefo. 4. John Atherton, James Underhill and Luke Trevanion, Santrev. 5. Alicia Keenan, The AICILA Group with Tugrul Durali, Alltech. 6. Phillip Wilkinson, Alltech and Holly Geraghty, Alltech.

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Australian Poultry Award 2018 – Dr Ben Wells At the recent Australian Poultry Science Symposium 2019 dinner held at the Sergeants Mess, Chowder Bay in Mosman in Sydney, Dr Juliet Roberts, President of the WPSA Australian Branch, presented the Australian Poultry Award for 2018 to Dr Ben Wells.

Dr Roberts had this to say about the popular choice who received a standing ovation.

“Dr Ben Wells has contributed substantially to the health and welfare of poultry in Australia during his career.

“His contributions include working within poultry companies and companies that service the poultry industry, as a veterinary consultant and by membership of industry and professional organisations, regular participation in poultry conferences, presentations at meetings and mentoring junior veterinarians in the poultry industry.

“Ben graduated with a BVSc from the University of Queensland in 1970.

He then worked for one year as a field veterinarian with Inghams Enterprises followed by two years as Technical Services Manager for Marrickville Holdings poultry and stockfeed.

“This was followed by four years as veterinarian for Elanco Products which included technical support and sales of poultry products.

“Ben moved back to Inghams Enterprises in 1979 as NSW Technical Services Manager with responsibility for poultry health, food safety and laboratory services.

“Since 1981, Ben has worked as a poultry consultant to the egg, chicken meat, quail and turkey industries with clients in NSW, Tasmania and Papua New Guinea.

“Ben has made significant contributions to industry associations by being a member of the Australasian Veterinary

Dr Ben Wells receives his Australian Poultry Award from Dr Juliet Roberts.

Poultry Association (AVPA) since 1971, President 2009-2014, setting up the AVPA website and in his role as presenter and organiser of AVPA scientific meetings.

“He was involved in the formation of the Commercial Poultry Veterinarians Special Interest Group of the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) to influence AVA policy.

“Ben chaired the NSW Chicken Meat Committee for 10 years and was ex officio on the Board of the Australian Chicken Meat Federation.

“He has participated in Poultry Information Exchange and contributed to a number of scientific peer-reviewed journal papers.

“Ben participated in the 2016 Avian Influenza Risk Mitigation Forum and is a current member of the Birling Laboratory Avian Ethics Committee.

“Ben’s areas of expertise related to the poultry industry include flock health (diagnostic and preventative medicine, vaccination and medication programs), biosecurity, SOPs for growers,

welfare guidelines, providing advice on purchase of equipment in relation to poultry welfare and performance, advising clients on husbandry and management techniques for layers and broilers, and acting as an expert witness in legal cases involving poultry producers.

“Ben has been instrumental in diagnosing outbreaks of major poultry diseases. He diagnosed and reported Newcastle disease outbreaks on Mangrove Mountain in 1998 as well as outbreaks of avian influenza in Tamworth in 1997 (with George Arzey), Maitland in 2012 and Young in 2015.

“Ben first diagnosed novel infectious laryngotracheitis viruses which emerged in Sydney. He also identified infectious bronchitis VicS vaccine as a cause of mortality in day old Cobb chicks and successfully introduced an alternative vaccine.

“For these and many other reasons, Dr Ben Wells is a most worthy recipient of the 2018 WPSA Australian Poultry Award.”

SBA Board resignation announcement Specialised Breeders Australia (SBA) wishes to advise that Richard Rayner has resigned as Chief Executive Officer and will be retiring from the poultry industry on 30th June 2019.

SBA has initiated an international search to source a suitable replacement for Richard, and the company anticipates making an announcement regarding the appointment of a new CEO prior to his departure.

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Richard joined SBA in January 2014 and has been at the helm of the company during a period of significant growth.

Under his leadership and guidance, SBA has constructed a new production farm, redeveloped a parent rearing farm, constructed a state-of-the-art commercial chicken hatchery and secured a new long-term agreement with Seqirus in the vaccine egg business.

Richard developed export markets

for parent stock into Asia and implemented process improvement initiatives designed to optimise operations and reduce biosecurity risks.

In addition, Richard has supported and developed the team at SBA, setting a solid foundation for future growth.

The Board would like to extend their thanks and gratitude to Richard for his significant contribution to SBA, and wish him well in his future endeavours.

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EW Nutrition Conference: Mitigating the AMR risk In March, EW Nutrtion hosted a conference at the Sheraton Grande Hotel in Bangkok in Thailand.

The theme was ‘Mitigating the AMR risk – Resistance Responsibilities Antibiotic Stewardship and Mission’.

The first speaker was Dr Marcelo Zuanaze, Global Technical Director Vaxxinova who spoke about ‘The Gut disruptors, antibiotic stewardship and effective tools’.

“The poultry industry must work to keep a balance between management, genetics, health, nutrition and environment,” he said.

“The need to focus on intestinal health to influence all economic factors is becoming more and more apparent.

“The first three weeks of life are the most imperative for poultry.

“After three weeks other challenges become a major factor in the bird’s life and these can greatly effect gut health if the gut is not established early (Moog, 1981).

“The intestine is the organ of the immune system, and is affected by disease and vaccines (Fussell, 1996).

The principal enteric diseases of interest in poultry are NE, Cocci, Salmonella, and EColi.

“It is imperative that a correct diagnosis of the problem is made, before treatment is advised.

Associate Professor Nuvee Prapasarakul from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand spoke on his topic ‘Resistance Gene, the transmission prospects and mechanism’.

“How do we get a ‘super bug’?” he asked. “The anatomy of the bacteria must be understood, and how DNA transfer effects resistance.

“AMR markers are being developed to decipher what testing will be the most successful to show resistant bacteria, quickly and cheaply.

“Antimicrobial susceptibility testing at its best – ‘Submit the right thing for the right output.’

“Bacteria evolve quickly and become better, genetically and are top grade in the evolution process.

“Common resistance in Thailand includes drugs like Beta-lactans (amoxycillin, ampicillin, and piperacillin) and tetracyclines (tetracycline).

“The resistance listed are isolated from farms either routinely using or not using in-feed antimicrobials.

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Dr Heinrich Kleine-Klausing, Managing Director, Head of Technology, Gelamin GmbH next spoke about ‘Personal, ethical and corporate social responsibilities of antibiotic stewardship’.

His conference topic focus was how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi.

“AMR is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society,” he said.

“Antibiotic reduction and AMR mitigation is a common global task protecting the next generations.

In Europe the following bans have taken effect for restricted use of antibiotics in animal production.

From January 1, 1999 – Tylosin, spiramycin, virginiamycin, Zinc-Bacitracin were banned.

From January 1, 2006 Avilamycin, Flavophospholipol, Salnomycin, Monensin were banned.

Dr Dr Kleine-Klausing made a good point when talking about the Asia Pacific Region when he said the more severe the climate, the more antibiotics have to be used as a result of more stress.

“A key factor to antibiotic management is to manage gut health first,” Dr Kleine-Klausing said.

“Promoting good bugs in the gut and understanding how the microbiome develops is also vital.

“Gut health is a steady state where the microbiome and the intestinal tract exist in symbiotic equilibrium and where the welfare and performance of the animal is not constrained by intestinal dysfunction,” he concluded.

Mr Gordon Butland, Director/ Consultand, G&S Agri Consultants Ltd spoke about ‘Broiler integration disruptors impact of antibiotic reduction’.

“Computers changed the way we worked,” he said. “Consider the plight of the rich and the poor.

“Suppliers to the food industry cannot just import everything, so how do we develop a situation where people can grow food in other areas and get that food from the farm to the consumer.

“Now, consumers also want to

Dr Heinrich Kleine-Klausing, Managing Director, Head of Technology, Gelamin GmbH. know what is in their food.

“They demand more information but retailers represent the commercial interface between scientific fact and public opinion and cannot afford to be in a ‘do nothing’ position.

“They are challenged daily by consumers, media, welfare, NGOs and those with an interest.

“They need robust science, evidence and facts to allow them to support their suppliers and farming supply base.

“As of November 2017, a survey from the USA reported that the percentage of birds which were grown with no antibiotic used during production is still only 44% (all of life).

“In the same survey period, additives used to replace antibiotic growth promotants were organic acids, phytobiotics/essential oils, enzymes, probiotics, and prebiotics.

Around 65% of those surveyed reported that they use organic acids in their AGP replacement strategy, using 61% probiotics and 54% enzymes, and half of those surveyed use phytogenic feed additives.

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International Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day 2019 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; celebrating women in agriculture On March 6, 2019, Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) organised an event at the Toowoomba Golf Club, Middle Ridge, to celebrate the critical role of women in agriculture.

Sara Willis from DAF was the event organiser which attracted a good audience who were both plentiful and enthusiastc.

The various speakers were all good and in some cases absolutely inspirational.

What their stories revealed was not just their vital role in on-farm presence but the critical role talented women play in the organisations, both national and local that advocate for agriculture and agricultural production.

Along with the two guys from EVENTION who organized the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sound & visionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which helped to make the event run like clockwork, they and Poultry Digest were the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;token blokesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Sara Willis opened the event and introduced he first speaker Wendy Craik, recognised as one of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading independent public policy advisors, particularly on issues related to natural resource management.

The next speaker was Jessica Fealy, the founder of Back Paddock Business, farm wife at Blue Sky Produce, self described social media junkie, a chartered accountant and community engagement practitioner whose blog â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are We There Yetâ&#x20AC;? gets well used.

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and family life was fabulously amusing and at the same time inspiring.

Two of her slides gave a clear insight into her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Can Doâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (and will do) personality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t- itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how can I?â&#x20AC;? On motherhood â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x153;powered by love, fuelled by coffee, sustained by wine!â&#x20AC;?

Jess quite literally had the audience on their feet interacting with Jessicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enthusiastic presentation.

Brigid Price â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Road Less Travelled (# Balanceforbetter) described the operations and philosophies of operating her organic beef enterprise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything different,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;we just documented it and each enterprise within our business has to have a profitable return and be The International Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day event in Towwoomba, which celebrated the amazing women in agriculture and the critical role they play, was a great opportunity to catch up with some of the women from the poultry industry.

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Intensive Animal Industry Conference Dalby On March 7, 2019 The Toowoomba and Surat Basin (TSBE) Food Leaders Australia (FLA) held its Intensive Livestock Industries Conference at the new Dalby Events Centre.

“Food Leaders Australia is a collaborative membership-based group created specifically to assist the food and agriculture sector,” said Bruce McConnel, the General Manager of TSBE Food Leaders Group, “Its influence stretches far beyond the Toowoomba and Surat Basin region and now incorporates lucrative air freight catchments in Australia and overseas.

“The aim of the group is to assist members by bringing investment and export opportunities into the agri sector, as well as work with existing food producers, processors and exporters to capitalise on local and export markets.

“Utilising the strong commercial and networking partnerships of TSBE, we are committed to linking members with opportunities, economic development, through investment attraction, as well as providing advocacy for members.

“This is evident in our continuing development of air freigt routes from Brisbane West Welcamp Airport to markets right across south east Asia and the Middle East.

“Throughout the Western Downs, and the Southern Queensland region, the intensive animal industries are a key driver of employment and economic growth.

“The region has many advantages that see continued strong investment in the beef, pork, poultry and dairy sectors.

“Without reliable grain production, significant infrastructure spending in air, road rail and available workforce, Southern Queensland will continue to drive these industries within Australia,” Bruce added.

He welcomed the many attendees from far and wide and Councillor Paul McVeigh, the Mayor of Western Downs Regional Council WDRC. A a resident of the western Downs for more than 50 years, Councillor McVeigh has been involved with farming on family properties in the area and prior to his current position was a Director of Cotton Seed Distributors.

He is passionate about agricultural development, water rights and the vast potential of the Western Downs region.

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Master of Ceremonies, Wayne Bradshaw from Jefo Aust/NZ, complete with a pair of Jefo ‘flying mics’ introduced the next speaker and in general kept the show on the road and thus to time with a busy schedule.

Jodie Taylor, General Manager for community and liveability Western Downs Regional Council gave her presentation- ‘Making investment easier: updated local planning processes to assist intensive animal industries invest in the region’.

The previous speaker, Cr McVeigh had defined his council’s enthusiasm for encouraging intensive agriculture to the Western Downs.

Jodie described just how that would work for those in intensive ag industries wanting to grow their businesses in this booming agricultural hub.

The horror stories from poultry industry participants in dealing with some councils are legion – 150page + environmental impact guidelines and a general antipathy to any form of intensive livestock rearing.

The WDRC, apart from encouraging intensive livestock to invest, have created a planning approach that is simply efficient, saves both time and thus unnecessary cost and dely.

Jodie explained that potential livestock producers could, after defining exactly what they wanted to achieve, meet with skilled council planners and be guided as to how they could best approach their application.

The aim of this was to avoid a repetitious submission process and thus curtail the time frame of applications.

“Connectivity is an important component of what we have to offer with road and rail links to ports and even airfreight from Wellcamp to Asia and beyond,” Jodie said.

“Increased certainty, reduced risk and short timelines add up to greater investment confidence,” Jodie stated.

“We mean business – WDRC timeframe for approvals average five weeks.

“Other council averages cna be 12 months,” she pointed out in concluding her presentation. Seems simple on the face of it, but infrequently practiced in the real world.

Jodie’s email is Jodie.taylor@wrdc. qld.gov.au and they are, she emphasizes, there to help producers who want to take advantage of what this region has to offer.

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by Mathew Taylor,Norton, Rural Planning Lead, who spoke GMPremise WesternAgriculture, Downs Regional Council. about government engagement.

Matthew observed that “traditional public consultation (website, TV ads, Radio ads) just don’t work in rural areas,” he said In the second session ‘Regional Growth Stories’ the presentations were Enabling people through technology’ (Lauren McNally HR Manager Mort & Co and ‘New investment and workforce management’ (Professor Rob van Barneveld CEO Sunpork).

After lunch the critical topics were social licence, trends, updates and how we respond as an industry.

Professor Rob van Barneveld spoke about animal welfare and the next speaker, Ian McConnel, the Global Community Lead – Beef, WWF spoke about environmental sustainability.

Livistock industries talk a lot about ‘The Social License’ and Ian gave a great insight into what can be an elusive subject when he explained ‘measuring the Social License’.

“Key elements of this task were, he said, pshychological identification, trust boundary, approval, creditability boundary, acceptance, legitimacy boundary, and withholding/withdrawal.

“Social licence is about risk, not marketing and social licence is not a communication strategy” he warned.

The final session of the day was ‘Making Innovation Accessible Brought to you by Premise’ and was introduced by Kimberley Wockner, the principal agricultural scientist, Premise Agriculture.

The day ended with drinks and a twilight dinner.

This was an excellent conference, well organised with great speakers.

For those in industry or associated services and suppliers in particular, The Dalby Events Centre is a great venue both in terms of its construction and location in the heart of one of Australia’s leading agricultural production areas.

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Gordon Hunter joins AGCO as Sales Manager In early February Poultry Digest visited AGCO’s Melbourne offices to meet Gordon Hunter who had recently joined the company as Sales Manager Australia and New Zealand.

Gordon, who has amassed extensive poultry industry in the UK, especially in the layer sector, is looking forward to introducing a new product range to Australian poultry producers He expressed great enthusiasm on the prospects for TECNO layer sheds and equipment in the Australian market as the industry moves more in the direction of cage free systems.

AGCO acquired the Italian TECNO enterprise in February 2016 and now with the expertise of new staff like Gordon, is keen to offer layer and breeder enterprises a new opportunity to improve their productivity in a market transitioning to cage free production.

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Its equipment was highly regarded, being durable and efficient.

Since then TECNO has added numerous innovations including advanced manure handling/drying systems, automation and better egg collection product features, as well as developing cage free systems to meet the market.

The VOLIERA layer aviary systems are available in a range of sizes, and are designed to optimise the available space and volume of poultry farms.

The systems, equipped with cleaning belts, allows greater hygiene and bird welfare, thus ensuring a high production level and a lower cost.

AGCO had one of the biggest product display stands at VIV Asia 2019 held at BITEC in Bangkok.

The centerpiece, a current model Massey Ferguson tractor a ‘Halo’ brand for AGCO, was surrounded with examples of AGCO - GSI’s extensive range of poultry shed equipment.

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Combilift Combi-PPT nominated for IFOY award Combilift has been nominated as a finalist in one of the most prestigious and hotly contested international awards in the materials handling industry.

From a large pool of applicants, just 15 products have been selected for the IFOY Award (International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year) which honours the best products of the year.

The Combi-PPT powered pallet truck with 8,000kg capacity is one of three products shortlisted by the jury in the Warehouse Truck category.

The Combi-PPT is a high performance pedestrian operated powered pallet truck with a range of capacities up to 16,000kg, which enables the safe and secure transportation of very heavy loads without the need for a ride-on forklift.

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Aviagen Management Essentials Gu Minqing

Technical Service Manager, Aviagen Asia Gu Minqing has more than 25 years experience in the poultry industry. He joined Aviagen Asia in 2004, servicing customers in China.

Gu states: “Most eggs are produced between peak and depletion, good post peak management is essential to maintain egg production persistency.

Post peak feed reduction is critical at this time”

Managing Post Peak Feed Reduction to Maximize Egg Production Persistency Objective: To maximize the number of eggs per female by maintaining persistency of egg production using an appropriate feed withdrawal program.

Key Points: 1. Establishing an appropriate post peak feed reduction program is critical for egg production persistency.

2. Post peak feed withdrawal is normally initiated 5-6 weeks after peak egg production or when egg mass has started to decrease.

Egg Mass = (Average Egg Weight [g] × Hen-Week %) ÷ 100 3. If bodyweight increases above target between peak and 35 weeks of age, feed withdrawal may need to begin earlier.

4. Flocks producing above published standards may require more feed, so feed reductions should be smaller and more gradual.

5. Flocks peaking lower than standard will need lower peak feed amounts and a more rapid feed withdrawal 6. A feed withdrawal program should allow bodyweight to increase by 15 - 20g per week and maintain a positive egg weight profile.

7. Monitor feed clean up time: • At peak this is normally 3-4hrs for mash, 2-3hrs for crumble and 1 - 2hrs for pellets.

• If the feed clean up time is not as expected , adjust feed levels accordingly.

8. Birds will need more energy or feed if: a. bodyweight is heavier than standard. b. environmental temperature is lower than 21°C. c. birds have poor feather cover.

Monitor feed reduction, if egg production, bodyweight or egg weight decreases more than expected, restore the feeding amount to the previous level.

9. Total feed withdrawal should be between 5-8% from peak to depletion.

Feed reductions >8% may negatively affect performance.

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New data from Europe shows that antimicrobials are becoming less effective Data released recently by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reveal that antimicrobials used to treat diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, such as campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis, are becoming less effective.

Vytenis Andriukaitis, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, said: “The report should ring alarm bells.

It shows that we are entering into a world where more and more common infections become difficult – or even sometimes impossible – to treat.

“However, ambitious national policies in some countries limiting antimicrobial use have led to a decrease of antimicrobial resistance.

“So before the alarm bells become a deafening siren, let’s make sure that we increasingly act all together, in every

country and across the public health, animal health and environment sectors under the One Health approach umbrella”.

According to the report, which refers to 2017 data, resistance to fluoroquinolones (such as ciprofloxacin) is so high in Campylobacter bacteria in some countries that these antimicrobials no longer work for the treatment of severe campylobacteriosis cases.

Most countries reported that Salmonella in humans is increasingly resistant to fluoroquinolones.

Multidrug resistance (resistance to three or more antimicrobials) is high in Salmonella found in humans (28.3%) and animals, particularly in S. Typhimurium.

In Campylobacter, high to extremely high proportions of bacteria were found to be resistant to ciprofloxacin and tetracyclines.

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However, combined resistance to critically important antimicrobials was very low to low in Salmonella and Campylobacter from humans and animals and in indicator E. coli from animals.

“Now is the time to turn the tide on antimicrobial resistance if we want to keep antibiotics working,” Mike Catchpole, ECDC’s Chief Scientist, said.

“It’s particularly worrying when it comes to combined resistance: even low proportions mean that many thousands of patients across the EU have limited treatment options for severe infections.

Marta Hugas, EFSA’s Chief Scientist, said: “We have seen that when Member States have implemented stringent policies, antimicrobial resistance has decreased in animals.

Annual reporting by European and national agencies includes noteworthy examples. This should serve as an inspiration for other countries.”

Rise of antibiotics requires One Health approach The joint report, which presents the data collected from 28 EU Member States from humans, pigs and calves under one year of age, confirms the rise in antibiotic resistance already identified in previous years.

In June 2017, the European Commission adopted the EU One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance, calling for effective action against this threat and recognising that it needs to be tackled in both human health, animal health and the environment.

The prudent use of antimicrobials is essential to limiting the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in humans and animals.

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Inghams Group Limited half year financial results Inghams Group Limited, Australia and NZ’s largest integrated poultry producer has announced its financial results for the year ending December 29, 2018.

The company stated the key highlights were growing volumes and earnings with strong cash flow.

The company said that its strategy implementation continues to deliver benefits, there is a continued growth in core poultry volumes and rising feed and energy costs have been offset by operational improvements or increased market prices.

“Project Accelerate is delivering improved yields, lower unit costs and improved asset utilisation with further opportunities identified. The capital investment program is on track, expanding capacity and improving efficiency. The strong operating cash flow is supported by strategic asset sales.

“The results are pleasing and reflect further progress on our strategy implementation and the continued demand for Ingham’s quality products,” Inghams Group Limited Jim Leighton said.

“Core poultry volumes grew by 3.0% across the group while gross profit increased 2.9% to $250.2m supported by continued progress on initiatives covering automation, labour productivity, procurement and network rationalisation.

“The first half saw significant cost increases relating to feed driven by the drought conditions in Australia and while every effort was made to offset these increases through internal initiatives, ultimately these were passed through to the market.

“The rationalisation of the Further Processing network in Australia was announced last year, with implementation completed in the second half of the 2019 financial year.

The performance of the Australian business was strong which offset a disappointing New Zealand performance driven mainly by the loss of some farms in early 2018 and the subsequent rebalancing of the operations thereafter.

Volumes in the Australian Third-Party Feed business declined as a result of the exit of Red Lea from the industry and the sale of the horse feed business Mitavite to Adamantem Capital for $59.5 m was completed on October 12, 2018.

Cash flow for the first half was strong, benefiting from the continued improvement in working capital supported by strategic asset sales. Net cash generated from underlying operating activities was $102.8m.

“The business continues to deliver improved operational and financial performance,” said Mr Leighton.

“It is very pleasing tot see the progress we have made reflected in continued volume growth and improving earnings despite the significant increases of our feed costs.

Poulty Digest attended VIV Asia 2019 and caught up with Philip Wilkinson on the Alltech stand.

Philip, as the ex-Managing Director of the UK’s biggest chicken meat brand, 2 Sisters and the driving force behind the Red Tractor food brand accreditation scheme, is a regular speaker at industry events like PIX and Alltech’s seminars.

His knowledge of the global chicken meat industry, retailing and consumer attitudes is prodigious and arguably very valuable to Inghams as a member of that company’s board of directors.

We discussed Inghams’ progress since the company listed on the ASX in 2016 and in particular the pleasing half year.

Philip mentioned the significant contribution of Ingham’s Chief Financial Officer, Ian Brannan, who joined Inghams in May 2015 and was a critical player in taking the company from a private equity held organisation to a publicly listed entity.

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Studies Show Artichoke extract (Cynara scolymus): 1. Promotes the increase of bile production and 2. Eenhances the detoxification process and re-establishes liver functions in cases of acute intoxication. It also interacts with lutein in fat mobilization.

• Increased bile is responsible for better fat emulsification and micelle formation leading to better fat- and fat-soluble vitamin absorption.

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HSW have been in operation for more than 90 years, boasting more than 1200 employees and several manufacturing operations worldwide.

Dave Roberts, Managing Director of Think Livestock (HSW’s exclusive Australian distribution partner), visited the HSW booth at VIV Asia to discuss new equipment and local market opportunities.

Three exciting new products were shown at the exhibition.

The HSW EcoMatic Twin is a world first ergonomic, compact, double-barrel plastic syringe. These offer a radical price benefit compared with the existing dual-vaccinator options available around the world.

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The HSW Double Breast Vaccinator is an electrically driven double vaccinator for adult chickens featuring guided chicken positioning, precise dosing and advanced safety features.

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new SBA hatchery at Rochester in Victoria involved some advanced technology including super hygienic and tough epoxy resin flooring, which though expensive, delivered a far higher level of bio security than conventional concrete flooring.

Walking away from our chance meeting I spotted the Bolidt stand. This Netherlands based company manufactures and installed this flooring product that is critical for biosecurity in key areas of the poultry industry Dennis van Grevenbroek and Lienke Stan from Bolidt told Poultry Digest about projects in Australia including the flooring in Avigenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new quarantine facility near Wagga Wagga in NSW. One of the advantages of visiting VIV is that it is possible to discover information not always easily obtained back in Australia.

For Poultry Digest anyway, it was a great event and we returned to Australia like many of my fellow Australians exhausted but full of ideas.

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Novus: ‘Performance through gut health’ forum The ‘Performance through gut health’ forum was presented by Novus before VIV Asia opened, at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel in Bangkok on March 11.

The forum highlighted discussions on issues facing customers in Asia on maintaining and promoting health and performance without the use of antibiotics and optimising performance in a tropical environment.

Speakers included Dr Billy Hargis, Professor from the University of Arkansas, Dr Vivek Kuttappan, Novus research scientist, Dr Yuwares Ruangpanit, Professor of Animal Science at Kasetsart University, Dr Suk Hyeon Cho, Novus Regional Technical Services Director, Dr Dexter Abrigo, Novus Regional Marketing Director and Rohan Bahl, Novus Asia Methionine Manager.

The event was well attended by over 70 delegates from the region.

Dr Billy Hargis, whose focus area of research lies on alternatives to antibiotics for health, performance and reduction of food-borne pathogens in poultry, led discussions on promoting enteric health without antibiotics.

One of the major issue in the industry is necrotic enteritis due to poor coccidiosis control and loss of inflammatory AGPs. The cost of coccidiosis is crucial

as it leads to malabsorption, local and systemic inflammation as well as cost of vaccines.

Lesion occurs both microscopically and macroscopically while Dr Hargis suggests that control is highly dependent on controlling oocyst numbers at appropriate times.

Proper vaccination is also critical for cost effective control or for displacement of resistant coccidiostats.

According to Dr Hargis, “In the urgent search for AGP alternatives, some alternatives may be more likely to promote recovery of the enteric epithelium whereas others may be more protective for the inflammation-induced shock and high acute associated with the more virulent challenge”.

“Without antibiotics, controlling the gut inflammation/leaky gut is extremely important.

“Protease consideration becomes crucial and microbiota management using selected essential oils and organic acids can have meaningful impacts.”

Dr Yuwares Ruangpanit tackled optimising performance in tropical environments where she said the emphasis was on feeding strategies after hatching to optimise performance through gut health.

“It is important to provide animals with quality feed and feeding to obtain

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Dr Billy Hargis, Univeristy of Arkansas at the Novus forum. balanced microbial as well as to reduce stress and inflammation in the gut,” Dr Ruangpanit said.

“Various researches suggest that chickens subjected to acute heat stress have reduced ileal crypt depth while some research additionally demonstrate that villus heights are also affected under heat stress.

“Growth performance of animals can be maximised in tropical conditions and without antibiotic supplementations with the use of precise feeding formulation and effective nutrition use among other management and health strategies.

Other topics discussed during the forum included global methionine updates, enhancing meat quality as well as addressing food safety in a post AGP environment.

Dr Vivek Kuttapan shared the latest researches on the benefits of organic copper in poultry.

“Copper is important for iron transport, red-blood-cell formation, antioxidant system as well as for structural integrity,” Dr Kuttapan said and introduced MINTREX Cu to the audience and presented researche of its successful use in optimising body weight gains and feed conversion ratios to improve broiler growth performance.

“Novus understands the importance of nutrition to support health and performance of animals, and this forms the basis of the Pushing Boundaries program to do more with nutrition under AGP free or antibiotic-free production.”

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Australian perceptions of hen welfare Dr Peta Taylor, Dr Lauren Hemsworth and Dr Huw Nolan from the University of New England are conducting research as part of an ongoing project in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England.

The research aims to establish an understanding of Australian industry stakeholder attitudes towards laying hen housing and welfare.

They would like to invite stakeholders to do an online anonymous survey that should take no more than 30 minutes.

Any personal details gathered in the course of the study would remain confidential. Some questions in the survey allow for the insertion of text responses and some of these could be quoted in the research. This will be done in a way that ensures that the person is not identifiable.

Any personal details will remain confidential and no individual or company will be identified by name in any publication for the results. All names will be replaced by pseudonyms.

In order to go into the running to win one of two iPads, you will need to leave an email address so they can contact you. Your identity will be protected and no email addresses will be shared with anyone.

“Please understand that your involvement in this study is voluntary and I respect your right to stop participating in the study at any time without consequence and without needing to provide an explanation, however, once you begin the survey your anonymous data which you have already provided cannot be withdrawn,” said Dr Peta Taylor.

The survey questions will not be of a sensitive nature, rather they are general, and will enable the researchers to increase their understanding of both industry and community knowledge of and attitudes towards layer hen housing and welfare.

The information from the survey will potentially be used in academic journal articles, industry reports, theses and conference presentations.

All hardcopy notes printed from the survey will be kept in a locked cabinet in an office at the University of New England. Any electronic data will be kept on cloud.une.edu.au, UNE’s centrally managed cloud server managed by the research team.

It will also be kept on a password protected computer in the same location. Only the research team will have access to the data.

All the data collected in this research will be kept indefinitely at UNE. However, all data will be de-identified.

No data that could potentially lead to identification will be kept. At the end of the survey period all data will be deleted from the Qualtrics servers.

This project has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee

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Feel free to contact the researchers with any questions about this research by email at: • Peta Taylor (project lead): peta.taylor@une.edu.au or by phone on 02 6773 1808 • Lauren Hemsworth: lauren.hemsworth@unimelb.edu.au or by phone on 03 9035 7613 • Huw Nolan: hnolan3@une.edu.au or by phone on 02 6773 5666

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“They need to understand environment and cost better as we need to communicate our own position, as an industry, far better,” Rick suggested.

“Sustainability needs to be at the heart of all feeding programs and we have to be optimistic and acquire the skills to meet demands.

“I am less certain about true sustainability as it will require massive interventions as well as political and social willpower for the change recquired,” Rick concluded.

Session 2 was ‘Low Protein Diets’ and the keynote speaker William Dozier is from Auburn University USA. ‘Views on ideal or lower protein levels for meat chickens and approaches to second tier amino acids’, was the topic.

In a wide ranging and comprehensive review Dr Dozier covered many issues associated with low protein diets.

He summarised his paper “feeding reduced CP diets can be achieved when formulating diets with optimum ratios of digestible THr (0.67-0.68), Val (0.76-0.78), Ile (0.67-0.69).

“Ingredient composition and price spred anong cereal 1 grains and oilseed meals along with oil/fat prices will dictate cost savings with L-Thr and L- Val in diet formulations.

“Digestible Lys specification and the associated amino acid ratios will determine the amount of CP reduction that can be achieved without compromising growth performance,” Dr Dozier concluded.

The first speaker in Session 3, low protein diets (contd) was Pradeep Krisnan, Senior Technical Manager at Evonik, Singapore.

“A greater magnitude of dietary protein is feasible and in the context of today’s fast growing broilers, dietary levels of Gly shall meet requirements for protein accretion, endogenous losses and metabolic process.

“Optimisation of both dietary Gly and endogenous Gly precursors needs consideration for maintaining growth performance of broilers fed low protein diets,” Pradeep stated in introducing his topic.

At the conclusion of Session 4 (Mineral nutrition) the Gary Sansome Scholarship, cited by Dr Viviene Kite from Agrifutures and awarded by Mrs Julie Sansome, went to University of Adelaide, PhD candidate Joshua Angove.

He is studying the effects of environment and nutrition on layer progeny.

There followed an introduction of posters presented by Ben Geist PRF Uni Sydney and the day ended with an early career researcher mentor session.

In Session 5, layer nutrition keynote speaker Dr Dana Stanley from The Central Queensland University spoke about the importance of gut microbiota in layer chickens, with particular emphasis on ‘the field’ situation.

Dana first explained the many roles of intestinal bacteria including, “the digestion of ‘indigestible’ nutrients from food, production of vitamins and hormones, regulating development of he gut and the prevention of pathogen growth.

“Intestinal bacteria also assists in the establishment of an immune system, plays a role in anxiety/stress hormone levels and controls a number of brain receptors,” Dana explained.

This is a major topic not only for livestock but also humans and Poultry Digest intends to publish more details of Dana’s research in a future issue.

Doreen Anene, University of Sydney/University of Nottingham, is back at APSS again and her presentation ‘Relationship between production traits of individual Isa

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Brown hens with egg quality was the final paper is Session 5 Layer Nutrition.

In his second keynote presentation delivered on February 19 at the layer nutrition session, Rick Kleyn delivered his second paper ‘Layer Nutrition – a future vision’.

“The potential of laying hens continues to improve and the birds that will populate our farms by 2020 will be capable of producing 500 eggs at 100 weeks of age.

“Knowing exactly how to feed these hens will be a challenge as we will not have gained access to test material before they arrive,” Rick said.

“It is possible that new genomic methodologies will help to overcome some of the issues, such as oviduct degeneration, but there is no assurance of this.

“Although overall egg numbers will increase, bird size will remain largely unchanged and the daily egg mass output will probably be lower. Nutrient requirements may well decrease, and eating patterns will change.

“The challenge will be to maintain hen health and the production of quality, saleable eggs until 100 weeks of age.

“How this will be achieved is largely speculative,” he said.

Xabier Arbe Ugalde from H&N International in Germany reflected on the ‘Path to the 100 week age layer hen in cage free systems’.

“We are the EW Group’s ‘Little Sister’,” Mr Ugalde explained as he introduced his topic.

“Egg producers are always looking for ways to improve efficiency as, nowadays, the genetic potential of layers is targeting an extended age production of 100 weeks, making the industry more sustainable,” he said.

“Australia is moving towards increased cage free production and there will be differences compared to the traditional production in cages in how to achieve this goal.

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The APSS 2019 conference dinner was held at the waterfront Sergeants Mess restaurant on the Mosman waterfront.

Dr Julia Roberts, as in many years past, announced the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Australian Poultry Awardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for 2018 which honoured the long career of Dr Ben Wells.

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of ‘antimicrobial stewardship - the path to least resistance.’

“Antimicrobial stewardship is now accepted as a global public health priority and an emerging animal health issue.

“Antimicrobial use contributes to the selection of antimicrobial resistance and consequently only high quality use of antimicrobial agents is considered appropriate,” Dr Page stated.

“The Australian meat chicken and egg industries are historically low users of antimicrobial agents and recent surveys of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial commensal species isolated from meat chickens and the environment of laying sheds have revealed very low levels of antimicrobial resistance.

“Despite this very favourable position, the implementation of formal and systematic antimicrobial stewardship plans will support the continued low frequency of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance,” Dr Page said.

The final speaker was Professor Wayne, University of Qld, who spoke about ‘Australian Poultry Science Symposium: reflecting on thirty years of science communication’.

He mentioned the significant contribution through sponsorship of both industry, local and global, and of what is today Australian Eggs and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation.

The dinners held for many years in the St John’s or St Andrew’s Colleges at Sydney Uni followed by ‘night caps’ at The Prince Alfred Hotel were recalled.

“Over the last thirty years APSS has become an important international poultry science meeting.

“APSS has showcased Australian poultry research and provided an invaluable opportunity for young scientists to communicate their achievements.”

Poultry Digest has attended 18 of those thirty symposia and witnessed the ability of the event and its organisers to attract not only the best speakers in the field of poultry science but a great audience from around he world.

It has never been about numbers but quality at APSS and though the 2019 event didn’t quite make 300 attendees, it got close. The papers we have mentioned are only a snapshot of the incredible volume of research conducted mostly in Australia.

As has happened in the more recent years of APSS, the papers will be available on the APSS Sydney University Website, which is currently undergoing reconstruction.

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