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Study: Fuels from corn waste not better than gasoline The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration’s conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

A $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released on April 20, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change concludes that biofuels made with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years

compared with conventional gasoline.

While biofuels are better in the long run, the study says they won’t meet a standard set in a 2007 energy law to qualify as renewable fuel.

The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law. About half of the initial market in cellulosics is expected to be derived from corn residue.

The biofuel industry and administration officials immediately criticized the research as flawed. They

said it was too simplistic in its analysis of carbon loss from soil, which can vary over a single field, and vastly overestimated how much residue farmers actually would remove once the market gets underway.

“The core analysis depicts an extreme scenario that no responsible farmer or business would ever employ because it would ruin both the land and the long-term supply of feedstock. It makes no agronomic or business sense,” said Jan Koninckx, global business director for biorefineries at DuPont.

Later this year the company is

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Corn residue: This undated combo photo, provided by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, shows corn residue after grain harvest, left, adjacent to a field section where corn residue was baled and removed after grain harvest in Jefferson County, Neb. Biofuels made from corn leftovers after harvest are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, challenging the Obama administration’s conclusions that they are a cleaner oil alternative from the start and will help climate change.

California farmers affected by drought to get more water The Associated Press

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California drought: Cattle graze in the Sites Valley, the location of a proposed reservoir, near Maxwell, Calif.

Democratic Rep. John Garamendi and Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa have proposed legislation for a federal study of the costs of building the Sites Reservoir in the valley that is about an hour’s drive north of Sacramento.

California’s drought has sparked a new push by federal lawmakers to create or expand a handful of reservoirs around the state.

FRESNO, Calif. — Droughtstricken California farmers and cities are set to get more water as state and federal officials ease cutbacks due to recent rain and snow, officials announced on April 18.

The Department of Water Resources said it is increasing water allotments from the State Water Project from zero to 5 percent of what water districts have requested.

The State Water Project supplies water to 29 public agencies serving more than 25 million Californians and irrigates nearly a million acres of farmland.

Also, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said it will supply 75 percent of the water requested by water agencies in the Sacramento Valley, up from the current 40 percent.

“This is all a bit of good news

in an otherwise bleak water year,” Mark Cowin, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said on a conference call with reporters.

The state’s increase to a 5 percent allocation will make a little more than 200,000 acre-feet available. An acre-foot is enough water to cover an acre to a depth of 1 foot, and roughly enough to sustain a family of four for a year.

Federal and state officials said rain and snow from storms in February and March allowed them to increase water allotments.

The news comes as the state is experiencing its third consecutive dry year. California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in January.

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Ky. bill takes aim at animal-rights videos at farms The Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Senate voted on March 28, to punish animal-rights activists with jail and fines for secretly filming farm operations, attaching the proposal to legislation meant to prevent animal shelters from using gas chambers as a form of euthanasia.

But that’s as far as the bill may go.

The Senate’s action drew a defiant response from the sponsor of the original House-passed bill.

Democratic Rep. Joni Jenkins said she would not ask the House to take up the broader bill in the final days of the General Assembly session, which would kill the measure.

She said the punishment proposed in the Senate version was misdirected.

“If a big factory farm is doing something that impacts the environment and public health, we shouldn’t be penalizing whistleblowers in those instances,” Jenkins said.

The provision to criminalize undercover filming or photographing of private farm animal operations was added by the Senate Agriculture Committee this week. The full Senate accepted the changes before passing the amended version on a 32-6 vote, sending it back to the House.

The amended measure would

make it a misdemeanor for someone to gain access to a private farm under false pretenses and then film or photograph the operations without the landowner’s consent. Violators could face up to 90 days in jail and a $250 fine.

Sen. Paul Hornback (RShelbyville), said he was disappointed that Jenkins didn’t plan to have the bill brought up in the House.

Hornback said he sees the provision as an attempt to protect private property rights.

“When somebody comes in and misrepresents themselves on a farm just to try to take action against that farm, I think that’s wrong,” he said.

The provision was supported

by Kentucky Farm Bureau but opposed by the Humane Society of the United States.

Humane Society officials said the so-called “ag-gag” language surfaced about a month after an undercover investigation revealed animal cruelty at a western Kentucky pig farm. They said video and photographs showed large pigs confined in cages so small that they couldn’t turn around, and showed sows being fed the remains of diseased piglets.

In recent years, animal rights groups have released undercover video elsewhere around the country exposing instances of animal abuse at slaughterhouses and farms.

Paul Shapiro, the Humane Society’s vice president of farm-animal protection, said the Senate’s provision was meant to “block transparency” of the meat industry.

“The good news is that the meat industry will not prevent Americans from finding out about what happens to animals on factory farms,” he said of Jenkins‘ refusal to bring the bill up again. “The bad news is that pets can still be put down in gas chambers in Kentucky.”

Meanwhile, Hornback didn’t rule out trying to attach the provision to another bill in the final days of the legislative session.

“If the opportunity arises, I would certainly do that,” he said.

Vilsack: Farm bill expands lending opportunities WASHINGTON — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced increased opportunity for producers as a result of the 2014 Farm Bill.

“Our nation’s farmers and ranchers are the engine of the rural e c o n o m y.

These improvements to our Farm Loan Programs will Vilsack help a new generation begin farming and grow existing farm operations,” said Vilsack.

The Farm Bill expands lending opportunities for thousands of farmers and ranchers to begin and continue operations, including greater flexibility in determining eligibility, raising loan limits, and emphasizing beginning and socially disadvantaged producers.

Changes that will take effect immediately include:

yy Elimination of loan term limits for guaranteed operating loans. yy Modification of the definition of beginning farmer, using the average farm size for the county as a qualifier instead of the median farm size. yy Modification of the Joint Financing Direct Farm Ownership Interest Rate to 2 percent less than regular Direct Farm Ownership rate, with a floor of 2.5 percent. Previously, the rate was established at 5 percent. yy Increase of the maximum loan amount for Direct Farm Ownership down payments from $225,000 to $300,000. yy Elimination of rural residency requirement for Youth Loans, allowing urban youth to benefit. yy Debt forgiveness on Youth Loans, which will not prevent borrowers from obtaining additional loans from the federal government. yy Increase of the guarantee amount on Conservation Loans from 75 percent to 80 percent and 90 percent for socially disadvantaged borrowers and beginning farmers.

yy Microloans will not count toward loan term limits for veterans and beginning farmers.

A fact sheet outlining modifications to the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Loan Programs is available at http://www. usda.gov/documents/2014-farmbill-changes-to-flp.pdf

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Proposed rule would clarify Clean Water Act Agriculture exemptions expanded WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) have jointly released a proposed rule to clarify protection under the Clean Water Act for streams and wetlands that form the foundation of the nation’s water resources.

The agency said the proposed rule will benefit businesses by increasing efficiency in determining coverage of the Clean Water Act. Determining Clean Water Act protection for streams and wetlands became confusing and complex following Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006. For nearly a decade, members of Congress, state and local officials, industry, agriculture, environmental groups and the public asked for a rulemaking to provide clarity, the EPA stated.

The proposed rule clarifies protection for streams and wetlands.

The proposed definitions of waters

will apply to all Clean Water Act programs. It does not protect any new types of waters that have not historically been covered under the Clean Water Act and is consistent with the Supreme Court’s more narrow reading of Clean Water Act jurisdiction.

“We are clarifying protection for the upstream waters that are absolutely vital to downstream communities,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “Clean water is essential to every single American, from families who rely on safe places to swim and healthy fish to eat, to farmers who need abundant and reliable sources of water to grow their crops, to hunters and fishermen who depend on healthy waters for recreation and their work and to businesses that need a steady supply of water for operations.”

“America’s waters and wetlands are valuable resources that must be protected today and for future generations,” said Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Jo-Ellen Darcy. “Today’s rulemaking will better protect our aquatic resources,

by strengthening the consistency, predictability and transparency of our jurisdictional determinations.

The rule’s clarifications will result in a better public service nationwide.”

About 60 percent of stream miles in the U.S. only flow seasonally or after rain, but have a considerable impact on the downstream waters.

And approximately 117 million people — one in three Americans — get drinking water from public systems that rely in part on these streams. These are waterways for which EPA and the Army Corps is clarifying protection.

Specifically, the proposed rule clarifies that under the Clean Water Act and based on the science: yy Most seasonal and rain-dependent streams are protected. yy Wetlands near rivers and streams are protected. yy Other types of waters may have more uncertain connections with downstream water and protection will be evaluated through a case specific analysis of whether the connection is or is not significant. How-

ever, to provide more certainty, the proposal requests comment on options protecting similarly situated waters in certain geographic areas or adding to the categories of waters protected without case specific analysis. The proposed rule preserves the Clean Water Act exemptions and exclusions for agriculture.

Additionally, EPA and the Army Corps have coordinated with USDA to develop an interpretive rule to ensure that 56 specific conservation practices that protect or improve water quality will not be subject to Section 404 dredged or fill permitting requirements.

The agencies will work together to implement these new exemptions and periodically review, and update USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service conservation practice standards and activities that would qualify under the exemption.

Any agriculture activity that does not result in the discharge of a pollutant to waters of the U.S. still does not require a permit.

The proposed rule also helps states and tribes — according to a

study by the Environmental Law Institute, 36 states have legal limitations on their ability to fully protect waters that aren’t covered by the Clean Water Act. EPA noted that the proposed rule is supported by the latest peerreviewed science, including a draft scientific assessment by EPA, which presents a review and synthesis of more than 1,000 pieces of scientific literature.

The rule will not be finalized until the final version of this scientific assessment is complete.

The agency added that 40 years ago, two-thirds of America’s lakes, rivers and coastal waters were unsafe for fishing and swimming.

Because of the Clean Water Act, that number has been cut in half.

However, one-third of the nation’s waters still do not meet standards.

The proposed rule will be open for public comment for 90 days from publication in the Federal Register.

The interpretive rule for agricultural activities is effective immediately.

More information is available at www.epa.gov/uswaters.

American Farm Bureau Federation ‘dismayed’ with EPA water rule WASHINGTON — The American Farm Bureau Federation has said it will oppose an Enviornmental Protection Agency proposed rule to regulate the nation’s waterways.

A statement by Bob Stallman, AFBF president, noted that the federation had “carefully reviewed EPA’s March 25 release of the ‘waters of the U.S.’ proposed rule. The results of our review are dismaying.

“The EPA proposal poses a serious threat to farmers, ranchers and other landowners. Under EPA’s proposed new rule, waters — even ditches — are regulated even if they are miles from the nearest ‘navigable’ waters. Indeed, so-called ‘waters’ are regulated even if they aren’t

wet most of the time. EPA there is no legal right to a says its new rule will reClean Water Act permit duce uncertainty, and that — if farming or ranching much seems to be true: activities need a permit, there isn’t much uncerEPA or the Army Corps tainty if most every feaof Engineers can deny ture where water flows that permit. That’s why or stands after a rainfall is Clean Water Act jurisfederally regulated. diction over farmlands “Under this proposed amounts to nothing less rule, farmers, ranchers Stallman than federal veto power and every other landover a farmer’s ability to owner across the counfarm. tryside will face a tremendous new “EPA accompanied its proposal roadblock to ordinary land use ac- with a new ‘interpretive rule’ claimtivities. This is not just about the ing to clarify certain statutory expaperwork of getting a permit to emptions for agricultural conservafarm, or even about having farm- tion practices, including activities as ing practices regulated. The fact is commonplace and essential to farm-

ing as building a fence. But these exemptions apply only to ‘dredge and fill’ permit requirements. They do not protect farmers from federal veto power over pest and weed control, fertilizer application, and other essential farming activities that may result in the addition of ‘pollutants’ to ‘navigable waters,’ — providing one views every ditch and wet spot across the landscape as ‘navigable waters.’

“The American Farm Bureau Federation will dedicate itself to opposing this attempted end run around the limits set by Congress and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that Congress meant what it said:

‘navigable waters’ does not mean all waters. This proposed rule shows that EPA refuses to accept those limits.”

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Viewpoint Compiled by Barbara Olejnik, Associate Editor 770-718-3440 bolejnik@poultrytimes.net

The buzz word bonanza

By Emily Metz Meredith Special to Poultry Times

ARLINGTON, Va. — An article appeared recently in the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s weekly newsclips — a service we provide our members which requires Alliance staff to troll the depths of the internet for stories about animal agriculture: from business, to legislation to even those where the likes of PETA Meredith (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) are mentioned. We read them, catalogue them and house them on our website for our members to read at their leisure.

The article, authored by Julie R. Thompson with the “Huffington Post” titled: How Food Labels Have Gotten Out Of Control, And Now Shopping Is A Stressor, described how shopping is now more hectic for shoppers as there are too many labels.

Writes Thompson: “There’s nothing more exhausting than going to the grocery store. And we’re saying this as people who used to love buying groceries. All the cooking possibilities the grocery store offered made us feel giddy. But now, it just Emily Metz Meredith is communications director for the Animal Agriculture Alliance with offices in Arlington, Va.

makes us dizzy. Sometimes we just want to lie down in the middle of the aisle and give up.”

“It’s not the lines — we can deal with that. It’s not even the aggressive shoppers — we know how to fight back. It’s the tiresome amount of food labels that are covering our food packages. Gluten free, low calorie, reduced calorie, low fat, less fat, no fat, free range, cage free, grass fed, all natural . . . the list goes on and on,” the article continues.

But wait a second — I’m confused. Didn’t you consumers want those labels? Aren’t we in agriculture always hearing that consumers want to know the “story” behind their food? Doesn’t survey after survey confirm that if a package of meat has a “grass-fed,” or “free range” or “hormone free” label on it, it sells better and makes consumers feel more at ease about the safety of their food?

We in agriculture have long agreed to produce what the consumer wants — after all, that’s our business. We’re in the business of producing food and delivering the consumer the safest product imaginable — in the flavors and packages and sizes — and price — that they demand.

Food companies hire meat scientists and famous chefs to test out new seasonings and create recipes with flare. We have a whole industry comprised of social scientists whose sole job is to spot food trends and report back to local newspapers, food service providers and restaurant chains.

We hear of college kids and millennials who are even more connected to their food — they want their food not only to tell a story

but be good for the environment, healthy and cheap — a difficult trifecta to perfect, for sure, but that won’t stop agriculture from trying.

And yet, there are articles like that one, that describe how shopping has become a confusing barrage of labels; a buzz-word bonanza if you will.

I tend to agree. As a consumer, I buy what’s on sale and what I always buy — my grocery list (when I actually make one) contains all the usual items that my husband and I enjoy and that are quick and easy to prepare. We’re creatures of habit and rarely do we deviate from the norm.

Perhaps that’s how we get through the grocery store aisles unscathed — by blocking out the buzzwords and focusing on our own consumer preferences. But I’m sure it also stops us from trying something new, from experimenting or exploring all that agriculture has produced — the bounty of our food choices.

Even Thompson noted her gratitude that we in the industry produce what the consumer asks for, and yet, we’re simultaneously succeeding and failing.

“We are more than thankful that there are food products available to fit everyone’s needs. Those with allergies, health problems and specialty diets should not have to go without their favorite foods. BUT, we’re just not even sure what we’re buying anymore because the labels have taken over EVERYTHING. Cereal is no longer just cereal, but a prescription for our heart, body and soul.”

This catch-22 is a paradigm that agriculture is incredibly familiar with. We give the people what they want, and they’re still not satisfied.

We’ve over-promised and overdelivered. We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t.

I was sitting across the table from a friend of my friend’s aunt the other night at a Passover Seder. As usual, we got on the subject of what everyone does for a living. I work for the animal agriculture industry, I remarked, already prepared for the barrage of questions that usually follows my short elevator speech about

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‘Agriculture has found a way to produce more with less — and to do that relying on fewer and fewer individual farmers and ranchers.’

Emily Metz Meredith Animal Agriculture Alliance

my job.

“Not for one of those big corporate agriculture conglomerates I hope,” said my friend’s aunt’s friend, her nose wrinkled in disgust.

I told her I work on behalf of the total animal agriculture industry — farmers and ranchers all the way up the chain.

“Oh thank goodness, farmers and ranchers, that’s good-they need someone to defend them,” she replied breathing an audible sigh of relief.

In my head I was thinking — farmers and ranchers good, but ag-

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riculture companies bad? Who do you think butchers your meat and makes the pre-packaged gravy we’re enjoying with our brisket tonight? Who do you think boxes up that rice or flash-freezes those vegetables?

It was a quintessential catch-22but what may surprise you is this wasn’t even a millennial, a trendyfoodie or a “locavore.” No, this perception was held by a middleaged woman, clearly not particularly caught up in the so-called food movement. I don’t peg her as a Twitter junkie or a blogger, and yet she was visibly relieved when she assumed I didn’t work for “big ag,” and just represented farmers and ranchers.

The truth is, I work for both big ag and farmers and ranchers — I don’t separate the two when I say I work on behalf of the total animal agriculture industry. I work for the small, organic guys and the big free-range guys. For the processor companies and the medium-size conventional farms.

We’re all agriculture together.

What I should have said to judge-y Jan is that agriculture is big because it has to be. Because agriculture has consolidated to give the consumer what they want: the ability to get up every day, go to work and not have

to worry about where their food is going to come from.

Imagine if we all had to go and do our day jobs and then hunt and gather every night in order to prepare dinner. No Bueno.

So agriculture has found a way to produce more with less — and to do that relying on fewer and fewer individual farmers and ranchers. And yet, consumers feel disconnected from their food supply and folks like Jan are left with this bitter taste in their mouth about agriculture.

Go figure.

It would be easy to throw up our hands and say, forget it, we’re cursed any way you slice it. But I have to believe that this consumer confusion will ease, that we’ll reach some sort of equilibrium.

I think we’ve already come a long way; that agriculture is trying to connect that consumer back to the food supply and tell our story.

But I also think that it’s OK for agriculture to be honest and to say: look, we’re just trying to give you what you want — and we’re trying to do it in a safe, efficient and sustainable way.

I don’t think being honest means kowtowing and apologizing, I think it means standing up for ourselves when we have logic, truth and sound-science on our sides.

We’ve got to start talking about not just the touchy-feely, warm-

fuzzy aspects of agriculture, but also the things that aren’t so pretty or pleasant — like PEDv, beak trimming or the relationship between processors and farmers. My hat goes off to the National Chicken Council for its new infographics on vertical integration; and to Cargill for standing up for FTB and defending it as a safe product that increases yield and minimizes food waste.

My hat does not go off to those companies who play into fear-based marketing or slap a label on every package just to make a buck.

Of course meat is gluten free — we don’t need a label for that. And hormones haven’t been used in poultry production for the last 30 years.

It’s clear that consumers — and millennials in particular — crave a transparency that’s real: one that’s down to earth, straightforward and up-front.

We in agriculture can deliver that, but we haven’t been. I think sometimes in our rush to tell our story we’ve painted too pretty a picture.

When that picture doesn’t line up with reality, it looks like we’ve been hiding — or worse, lying.

So let’s swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us God. We’re not under oath, but it’s the right thing to do.

Because I for one, am sick of being damned.

AMI video highlights plant sanitation efforts WASHINGTON — Thorough cleaning of meat and poultry plants — from floors and walls to conveyor belts and grinders — is one of the most important steps processors take to make meat and poultry safe, and yet it is one of the most misunderstood aspects of meat production.

New American Meat Institute (AMI) polling found that only 34 percent of Americans know that meat plants are cleaned and sanitized daily. In fact, in most plants an entire eight hour shift is dedicated to sanitation each day a plant is open.

Now, a new Glass Walls video takes viewers inside a typical facility to show exactly how the process is done.

“As part of our efforts to increase transparency and show what happens in meat plants, we want people to see how thoroughly plants are cleaned everyday,” said AMI Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Member Services Janet Riley. “We clean each piece of equipment after use, though we ensure it isn’t just visibly clean, but microbiologically clean before we process. The steps we take in our plants are similar to those a hospital would take to clean an operating room. While I pride myself on having a clean kitchen at

home, my efforts pale in comparison so what happens every day in meat and poultry plants.”

“Sanitation in the Meat Industry” is the fourth video in the AMI Glass Walls series and features a guided tour of the sanitation process from start to finish led by Dr. John Butts, vice president of research at Land O’Frost.

The process includes taking apart each piece of machinery; scrubbing the equipment, ceilings and floors with foam cleansers; testing for microbes and USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service inspection and approval before a plant can reopen for business.

AMI’s Glass Walls videos also feature tours of beef, pork and turkey plants led by animal welfare expert Dr. Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University.

The new video is available at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GUJ4vI-JA88. Complimentary copies are provided to teachers who cannot access YouTube.

To receive a copy, send a request to Glass Walls Sanitation, 1150 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 1200, Washington, D.C., 20036 or email publicaffairs@meatami.com.

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Business Compiled by David B. Strickland, Editor 770-718-3442 dstrickland@poultrytimes.net

Post Holdings acquiring Michael Foods Inc. for $2.45 billion MINNETONKA, Minn. — Michael Foods Inc. on April 17, announced that Post Holdings Inc. intends to acquire the company and its related entities for $2.45 billion.

The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2014, subject to customary closing conditions.

Michael Foods is a leading packaged goods company providing valueadded food products and service solutions to customers in the foodservice, retail and food ingredient channels, officials noted, adding that the company holds leading market positions in each of its three segments and produces a broad range of value-added egg products, potato products, and cheese and dairy-case foods.

Michael Foods’ recognized brands include Papetti’s®, Crystal Farms®, AllWhites®, Simply Potatoes®, Abbotsford Farms® and Eggland’s Best® (under license). Michael Foods is currently owned by an investor group that includes affiliates of GS Capital Partners, affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners, and other investors including current management.

“This is an exciting time for the entire Michael Foods team and clearly demonstrates the strength of our brands, the value of our deep customer relationships and the dedication of our employees,” said Jim Dwyer, chairman and CEO of Michael Foods. “We believe our business will benefit from Post’s portfolio management approach and from our continued focus on the breakfast day-part, expanding egg consumption to all dayparts, and delivering convenient meal and snack choices to consumers.”

According to Post, Michael Foods will continue to operate independently under the leadership of Dwyer and the company’s current management team.

“We are pleased to become part of the Post family, and we look forward to maintaining and growing our leadership position with their support,” Dwyer said. “I want to thank GS Capital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners for their investment and confidence in our business over the past several years as we worked toward this day.”

Bill Stiritz, Post’s chairman and CEO, said “This acquisition is exactly what we look for in an investment. We are extremely impressed with the job Jim and his team have done and we look forward to continuing to build this substantial business with them.”

Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are acting as financial advisors and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is acting as legal advisor to Michael Foods in connection with the transaction.

More information can be obtained at www.michaelfoods.com or www. postholdings.com.

Other Business News Peco notes new $165M Ark. complex TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Peco Foods has announced plans to build a fully integrated poultry complex in Randolph and Clay counties in northeastern Arkansas. The new facilities will include a hatchery, feed mill and processing plant.

Through both locations, the company plans to invest an estimated $165 million and create 1,000 new jobs.

On March 10, in Little Rock, Mark Hickman, president and CEO of Peco Foods, joined Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, local, regional and state economic development officials and elected officials for the announcement at the Arkansas State Capitol.

“We are extremely pleased to formally announce this new project today,” Hickman said. “As we have experienced firsthand with our complex in Batesville, the state of Arkansas is home to an outstanding workforce that shares the goals and values of our company. I want to thank Gov. Beebe and his team for their assistance in making our Northeast Arkansas expansion a reality. We look forward to a long and very successful partnership.”

Peco has had a presence in Arkansas since 2011 when the company acquired the Townsends Poultry Complex in Batesville. In addition to the Batesville facility, Peco operates a feed mill in Newark, Ark. Through such acquisitions and expansions, Peco has grown to become the eighth largest poultry producer in the U.S., processing approximately 24 million pounds of poultry each week.

Hickman emphasized that one of the most important aspects of this new complex is that it will enable Peco Foods to expand its rapidlygrowing niche as a preferred supplier of raw poultry commodity meats for value-added national accounts. He described that as a key strategy of the company’s growth

going forward.

“When Peco Foods acquired an existing Arkansas facility a few years ago, it made a significant investment in the workers of Northeast Arkansas,” Beebe said, “That investment has ultimately led to this major expansion. We are here today because Peco Foods knows the workforce in Randolph and Clay counties has the necessary skills to take the company to the next level of success.”

Construction will begin in two phases. Groundbreaking on the feed mill site is set for April and the first stages of work on the hatchery and processing plant will begin in July.

Hickman said Peco will incorporate state-of-the-art waste water treatment and protein conversion facilities in the new complex and will utilize the latest technology.

“Historically, one of the biggest challenges facing any poultry company is the treatment of wastewater and the conversion of byproducts in a manner that is environmentally appropriate as well as cost effective,” Hickman told the group in Little Rock today. “In keeping with our commitment to protect the environment, we believe the new systems will be a model for the industry.”

Headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Peco Foods has processing plants throughout Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. The central location of Peco’s plants guarantees fresh delivery in less than 72 hours anywhere within the continental U.S., the company noted.

More information about Peco Foods can be obtained at www. pecofoods.com.

Cal-Maine reports third quarter results JACKSON, Miss. — Cal-Maine Foods Inc. has reported results for the third quarter and nine months ended March 1, 2014.

Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 were $395.5 million

compared with net sales of $360.4 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2013. The company reported net income of $42.9 million, or $1.78 per basic share and $1.77 per diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 compared with $30.6 million, or $1.27 per basic and diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2013.

For the first nine months of fiscal 2014, net sales were $1.07 billion compared with net sales of $962.2 million for the prior-year period.

The company reported net income of $77.7 million, or $3.23 per basic share and $3.22 per diluted share, for the first nine months of fiscal 2014 compared with net income of $54.3 million, or $2.26 per basic and diluted share, for the year-earlier period.

“Cal-Maine Foods delivered a solid performance for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 with our net sales up 10 percent over the same period last year,” said Dolph Baker, chairman, president and CEO of Cal-Maine Foods Inc. “The higher sales reflect both improved volumes through the holiday season and higher average selling prices compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2013.

“Consumer demand for shell eggs has been strong at the retail level for both generic and specialty eggs, supported by below average temperatures across the country.

In addition, the egg products segment of the industry has continued to experience strong demand due to the introduction of breakfast items at many quick serve restaurants, as well as increased exports.”

“Sales of specialty eggs have increased throughout this fiscal year and were up 9 percent for the third quarter,” Baker added. “Specialty egg sales accounted for 17.4 percent of dozen eggs sold and 23.7 percent of total shell egg sales revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2014, compared with 16.7 percent of dozen (Continued on next page)

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eggs sold and 23.6 percent of total shell egg sales revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2013.

“We believe the performance of specialty eggs will continue to be a key driver of our growth as we capitalize on favorable consumer demand trends. We remain focused on identifying additional opportunities to market and sell specialty eggs and enhance our product mix.”

“We are pleased with our improved operating performance during the third quarter. We were able to benefit from lower feed costs compared with the same period last year,” he said. “Operating income was $46.6 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2014, up 51 percent compared with $30.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2013.

“Overall, our operations have continued to run well and our board recently approved production expansion projects for our existing operations in Florida, Texas and Kentucky. These expansions will enhance our operating efficiencies and the additional capacity will allow us to purchase fewer eggs in the spot egg market where prices may be more expensive.”

As previously announced, on March 1, 2014, the company completed the acquisition of 50 percent of the membership interests of Delta Egg Farm LLC from Sunbest Foods of Iowa Inc., a Moark LLC affiliate.

Delta Egg Farm LLC was previously an unconsolidated joint venture of the company.

As a result of this transaction, Delta Egg Farm LLC, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the company. For the third quarter of fiscal 2014, the company recorded a non-recurring, non-cash gain of $4 million in other income for the excess of the purchase price over the carrying value of the company’s 50 percent investment in the joint venture.

This gain is non-taxable, and therefore resulted in a $1.5 million reduction to the company’s income tax expense for the third quarter of fiscal 2014, Cal-Maine noted.

Additionally, the company re-

corded a $3.7 million decrease to deferred income tax liabilities related to the tax basis of the equity investment in the joint venture. Delta Egg’s assets include a feed mill and egg production complex with capacity for approximately 1.2 million laying hens, located near Delta, Utah, and an organic egg production complex with capacity for approximately 400,000 laying hens located near Chase, Kan. “We are pleased to assume the full ownership and management of Delta Egg Farm LLC as we integrate these additional facilities into our operations,” Baker said. “This transaction further advances our strategy to expand our capacity and grow our business through selective acquisitions. We look forward to the additional market opportunities ahead for Cal-Maine Foods in fiscal 2014.”

For the third quarter of fiscal 2014, Cal-Maine Foods will pay a cash dividend of approximately 59 cents per share to holders of its common and Class A common stock.

The dividend is payable May 15, 2014, to shareholders of record on April 30, 2014.

More information can be obtained at www.calmainefoods.com.

Younglove promotes company leadership SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Ken DuBois has been named president and Loren Field as executive vice president of Younglove Construction LLC. With the recent retirement of Michael Gunsch as its president, DuBois will now lead the 118-yearold design-build company.

DuBois has been with Younglove for the past 16 years as a project manager and, most recently, as a vice president. With a degree in civil engineering, two of his recent projects have been the grain terminal in Vancouver, Wash., for United Grain and a grain elevator for Louis Dreyfus in Port Allen, La. Field has been with Younglove for 32 years. Graduating from Iowa State University with a construction engineering degree, Field has

led the company’s leadership in the design and building of feed mills throughout the U.S. Two of his recent projects include the rice facility for Producers Rice Mill in Stuttgart, Ark., and the swine feed mill for Cargill in Hedrick, Iowa.

Younglove Construction is a designer and constructor of facilities for feed, grain and flour milling, food processing, and bulk materials handling and storage. More information can be obtained at www. younglovellc.com.

Americold & Perdue note Pa. expansion LEESPORT, Pa. — Americold and Perdue Foods have announced that the 96,000 square foot temperature-controlled storage facility expansion underway in Leesport, Pa., will handle products for Perdue’s northeastern U.S. customers.

This state-of-the-art, energy efficient facility provides more than 2.3 million cubic feet of temperaturecontrolled storage space dedicated to the support of the Perdue Foods business.

Through this expansion, Perdue Farms and Americold are creating just more than 100 new jobs in Pennsylvania. The new facility will handle products previously distributed from a Perdue-owned distribution center in Georgetown, Del. The Georgetown distribution center is being converted to a dedicated shipping facility serving the adjacent Georgetown processing plant.

“The Leesport expansion is symbolic of our long standing partnership with Perdue and our commitment to designing and implementing customized solutions for our customers that meet the needs of their growing businesses,” said Fred Boehler, president and chief operating officer of Americold.

“Americold is the leader in temperature controlled distribution and logistics, and expansion of our partnership with them in Leesport will enable us to focus our efforts on continued market leadership in premium brands and products. At the same time, they’ll provide us with

Business updated technology to better serve our customers,” said Lester Gray, senior vice president of operations for Perdue Foods.

The Leesport facility is approximately three hours closer to most customers compared to the Georgetown distribution center, the company noted.

“This supports our growth across our portfolio of brands, including the Perdue®, HarvestLand®, Coleman Natural® and Coleman Organic® brands, as well as customer-owned brands, while working toward improvements in customer service,” Gray said. “We’re seeing continued growth through new customers and new products for the Perdue brand and unprecedented growth in organic brands.”

Perdue contracts with independent Pennsylvania farm families to raise its organic chickens, and buys both conventional and organic grain from Pennsylvania farmers through

Perdue AgriBusiness, the company added. To support the growing demand for organic products, Perdue AgriBusiness operates an elevator in Marietta, Pa., dedicated to buying and storing USDA certified organic grain. Perdue AgriBusiness was recently awarded the 2013 Outstanding New Organic Producer award

by Pennsylvania Certified Organic.

Perdue Chairman Jim Perdue said, “This move reinforces Americold and Perdue’s joint commitment to Pennsylvania. In addition to the farm families who raise our organic chickens and the farmers who supply grain, we are pleased to be partnering with Americold in Pennsylvania, and look forward to other opportunities to increase our presence in the state.”

More information about Americold can be obtained at www.americold.com. More information about Perdue Farms can be obtained at www.perduefarms.com.

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ILLINOIS Meat conference offers new sessions CHAMPAIGN — The American Meat Science Association Reciprocal Meat Conference planning committee has announced five new extended sessions to provide specialized training for attendees.

The sessions are: culinary aspects of product research and development; media training for meat scientists; processed meats evaluation workshop and contest; basic science and technical writing; and research priorities for meat science funding.

The sessions will take place on Wednesday, June 18, from 9:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m.

The AMSA 67th Reciprocal Meat Conference is June 15-18 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

More information can be obtained at www.meatscience.org/rmc or by contacting Deidrea Mabry at 800517-AMSA, ext 12. m m m

Registration open for IFT meeting CHICAGO — Registration is now open for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo at the New Orleans (La.) Morial Convention Center on June 21-24.

The 2014 IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo will feature the very latest food products, the hottest food trends and the most important de-

Calendar Compiled by Barbara Olejnik, Associate Editor 770-718-3440 bolejnik@poultrytimes.net

APR 28-29 — FEDERAL FOOD REGULATORY CONF., Embassy Suites Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact: Prime Label Consultants, 536 7th St., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003; 202-5464444; conference@primelabel.com.

APR 29-30 — AFIA/FAMI-QS AWARENESS IN FEED SAFETY, Doubletree, Des Moines, Iowa.

Contact: American Feed Industry Association, 2101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 916, Arlington, Va. 22201. Ph: 703524-0810; afia@afia.org; www.afia.org.

30-May 1 — NGA DAY IN APR WASHINGTON, Washington, D.C. Contact: National Grocers Association, 1005 N. Glebe Road, Suite 250, Arlington, Va. 22201-5758. Ph: 703516-0700; amamone@nationalgro-

cers.org;

www.nationalgrocers.org

APR 30-May 1 — FMI DAY IN WASHINGTON, Mayflower Renaissance Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact: Food Marketing Institute, 2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 800, Arlington, Va. 22202-4813. Ph: 202-4528444; fmi@fmi.org; www.fmi.org.

MAY 1-2 — NATIONAL BREEDERS ROUNDTABLE, Airport Marriott Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. Contact: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, 1530 Cooledge Road, Tucker, Ga . 300847303, Ph: 770-493-9401; seminar@ uspoultry.org; www.uspoultry.org.

MAY 2 - GPF ANNUAL SPRING MTNG., Brasstown Valley Resort, Young Harris,

velopments in the science of food.

IFT’s 2014 Scientific Program will address hot topics in food safety, product development, food health and nutrition, environmental sustainability and novel processing and packaging.

With more than 900 companies expected to exhibit, this event showcases the largest, most diverse collection of food ingredient, equipment and packaging suppliers from all over the world. More than 100 educational sessions and 1,000 poster presentations will provide information on the latest developments and trends in food science.

In addition, this year marks a milestone as IFT celebrates its 75th anniversary.IFT will be holding a special celebration called Diamonds & Donations at Generations Hall, on June 22, at 9 p.m. in New Orleans. Proceeds from this event will support the programs of Feeding Tomorrow, the foundation of the Institute of Food Technologists.

IFT will also be celebrating both past and future contributions of food science through a new onsite Innovation Center, which will showcase the most important food science and technology achievements over the

last 75 years. The Innovation Center will feature a presentation theater with sessions focused on emerging trends and scientific developments on the horizon, and much more.

More information is available at www.am-fe.ift.org/cms/

Ga. Contact: Georgia Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 763, Gainesville, Ga. 30503.

Ph: 770-532-0473; claudette@gapf.org.

vapoultry. com; www.vapoultry.com.

5769; denna.baldwin@maryland.gov.

MAY 14-15 — POULTRY PROCESSOR WKSHP., Embassy Suites Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Ga. Contact: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, 1530 Cooledge Road, Tucker, Ga .

30084-7303, Ph: 770-493-9401; seminar@uspoultry.org; www.uspoultry.org.

MAY 20-22 — MULTI-STATE POULTRY FEEDING & NUTRITION CONF., Marriott East, Indianapolis, Ind. Contact: tlrobertson@purdue.edu.

MAY 5-6 — MIDWEST BROILER & TURKEY HEALTH MANAGEMENT SCHOOLS, Columbia, Mo. Contact: salvarez@westernu.edu.

MAY 7-8 — MIDWEST LAYER HEALTH MANAGEMENT SCHOOL, Columbia, Mo. Contact: salvarez@westernu.edu.

MAY 8-9 - ANIMAL AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE STAKEHOLDER MTNG., Arlington, Va. Contact: Animal Agriculture Alliance, 2101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 916-B, Arlington, VA 22201.

Ph: 703-562-5160; info@animalagalliance.org; www.animalagalliance.org.

MAY 12-14 — UEP LEGISLATIVE BOARD MTNG., Washington, D.C. Contact: United Egg Producers, 1720 Windward Concourse, Suite 230, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Ph: 770360-9220; www.unitedegg.com.

MAY 14 — VPF HEALTH & MANAGEMENT SMNR., Harrisonburg, Va. Contact: Virginia Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 2277, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801; hobey@

VIRGINIA AFIA to host feed industry conf.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Feed Industry Association will host the Feed Industry Institute in Minneapolis, Minn., June 16-19.

The conference — AFIA’s oldest standing event — is held once every two years, and is sponsored by the organization’s Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference Committee. This year’s theme is “Your Path to Understanding the Feed Industry.”

The institute provides attendees with an ideal educational forum to learn about the feed and ingredient industry first hand from highly qualified industry experts. The program

MAY 15 — VPF FRIENDS OF FEATHERS GOLF TOURNEY., Harrisonburg, Va. Contact: Virginia Poultry Federation, P.O. Box 2277, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801; hobey@ vapoultry. com; www.vapoultry.com.

18-21 — ALLTECH MAY INT’L. SYMPSM., Lexington, Ky. Contact: Alltech International, 3031 Catnip Hill Pike, Nicholasville, Ky. 40356; www.alltech.com/symposiium; symposium@alltech.com.

MAY 19-20 — NATIONAL EGG QUALITY SCHOOL, Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, Sacramento, Calif.

Contact: Denna Baldwin, program manager, Maryland Department of Agriculture, Food Quality Assurance Program, 50 Harry S. Truman Pkwy., Annapolis, Md. 21401. Ph: 410-841-

is designed for individuals new to the feed industry. Topics slated for this year’s agenda include “Water Soluble and Fat Soluble Vitamins,” “Connecting the Disconnect” and “Animal Proteins and Use of Antioxidants.”

“Attendees will walk away with practical information and best practices that can help them be well versed in their day-to-day job responsibilities,” said Veronica Rovelli, AFIA director of meetings and events. “This event typically generates an audience of 120 people from various industry segments, giving each attendee the unique opportunity to engage with well-respected industry experts.”

The course sessions have been approved by the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists for 21 continuing education units (CEUs).

In addition to the educational programming, FII will provide attendees with the opportunity to network with colleagues and lecturers in the feed, pet food and ingredient industries.

Registration is available on the AFIA website at www.afia.org.

MAY 22 — ISPA GOLF OUTING, Carmel, Ind. Contact: Indiana State Poultry Association, Purdue University, Animal Sciences, 915 W. State St., West Lafayette, Ind. 479072054. Ph: 765-494-8517; ispa@ purdue.edu; www.inpoultry.org.

JUN 8-10 — NCC SUMMER BOARD MTNG., The Sanctuary, Kiawah Island, S.C. Contact: National Chicken Council, 1152 15th St., N.S., Suite 430, Washington, D.C. 20005. Ph: 202-296-2622; ncc@chickenusa. org; www.nationalchickencouncil.org; www.eatchicken.com.

JUN 9-10 — CPF SUMMER BOARD MTNG., The Cliffs Resort, Shell Beach, Calif. Contact: California Poultry Federation, 4640 Spyres Way, Suite 4, Modesto, Calif.

95356. Ph: 209-576-6355; califpoultry@cs.com; www.cpif.org.

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Farming irrigation making inroads in Alabama The Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — With water supplies dwindling and land worn from overuse, agriculture in the arid Southwest has a problem that could soon affect the entire nation.

Some experts believe the answer lies in better irrigation for the Southeast, particularly in Alabama.

While its Gulf Coast neighbors have millions of acres of irrigated land, fewer than 200,000 acres in Alabama are irrigated. There are another 2 million acres of fertile land in Alabama that could see a boom in production with irrigation in place, and that land requires far less water to farm than in the West.

Experts said problems elsewhere may soon turn national attention to Alabama’s underused land.

“Alabama has about 120,000 to 130,000 acres irrigated,” Auburn University professor and Extension specialist Sam Fowler said. “I’d be very surprised if that number doesn’t double pretty quickly.”

Many state farmers have been reluctant to invest in irrigation systems even after the state offered tax credits to offset the initial costs for systems that can pay for themselves in as few as five years. Fowler said more than half of the state’s farmers rent their land instead of owning it and are less likely to commit to a system for that reason.

Age also plays a role. The average age in Alabama is over 60, and younger farmers are more willing to make long-term investments, Fowler said.

And unlike Alabama’s irrigationheavy neighbors, farmers here often don’t have easy access to shallow groundwater.

That’s led to a culture built on dryland farming, and Alabama Cooperative Extension System specialist Jim Langcuster said that’s a mindset that can be hard to change.

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Still, it’s a change that’s starting to happen with the arrival of new technology and younger farmers, Fowler said.

“There’s increased interest in irrigation,” he said. “We’re having the older generation passing the farm down to their descendants.”

The stakes could be high.

If the situation continues to worsen and the nation doesn’t replace the lost production in the Southwest and Midwest, it may have to look to other countries for food.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Mobile), said it’s “a very significant matter.” But farmers here may face a catch-22 — to have the best chance to get more federal funding for irri-

gation, the state needs to have more irrigation in place.

“I found when we were working on the farm bill this year that states got more money if they were already irrigating more, instead of having irrigation money from the federal government that would encourage states that are behind to catch up,” Sessions said.

As Alabama builds its irrigation system, experts here want to make sure they don’t repeat mistakes that helped drain water resources in the Southwest.

Richard McNider of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, one of the state’s leading agriculture experts, has studied the effects of climate change and overuse in the Southwest and Midwest. He heads

the Alabama University Irrigation Initiative, a coalition of professors

who are working on a comprehensive agricultural irrigation plan for the state.

McNider said with a sustainable plan for how to use the state’s watersheds, Alabama irrigation would be a far cheaper option for federal investment in the long term.

“Trying to spend huge amounts of money for water to put on cotton in the California or Arizona area is simply not the right efficiency approach for the government to take when . . . putting that same investment in the East could allow us to actually take on the cotton production and the rice production and things like that,” McNider said.

In the meantime, Alabama’s wildly varying weather patterns and poor groundwater access have created a fragile farming environment, and even a short drought can be devastating.

“We get by, but about every five years we lose a major crop because of drought,” Sessions said.

That could change with the increased focus on irrigation.

“There’s no doubt that irrigation can make farming much less risky, and it can be profitable,” Fowler said.

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scheduled to finish a $200 millionplus facility in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms. An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 percent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

The research is among the first to attempt to quantify, over 12 Corn Belt states, how much carbon is lost to the atmosphere when the stalks, leaves and cobs that make up residue are removed and used to make biofuel, instead of left to naturally replenish the soil with carbon.

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the field, the process contributes to global warming.

“I knew this research would be contentious,” said Adam Liska, the lead author and an assistant professor of biological systems engineering at the University of NebraskaLincoln. “I’m amazed it has not come out more solidly until now.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s own analysis, which assumed about half of corn residue would be removed from fields, found that fuel made from corn residue, also known as stover, would meet the standard in the energy law.

That standard requires cellulosic biofuels to release 60 percent less carbon pollution than gasoline.

Cellulosic biofuels that don’t meet that threshold could be almost impossible to make and sell.

Producers wouldn’t earn the $1 per

gallon subsidy they need to make these expensive fuels and still make a profit. Refiners would shun the fuels because they wouldn’t meet their legal obligation to use minimum amounts of next-generation biofuels.

EPA spokeswoman Liz Purchia said in a statement that the study “does not provide useful information relevant to the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from corn stover ethanol.”

But an AP investigation last year found that the EPA’s analysis of corn-based ethanol failed to predict the environmental consequences accurately.

The departments of Agriculture and Energy have initiated programs with farmers to make sure residue is harvested sustainably. For instance, farmers will not receive any

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State officials said the recent storms also removed the need to immediately install rock barriers, blocking certain channels of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, to prevent saltwater intrusion.

The expensive barriers would have adverse impacts on fish and wildlife and worsen water quality for some agricultural users, according to state officials.

Cowan said that the state has increased its water allotment but asked suppliers not to draw from it until after Sept. 1. Officials worry about yet another dry year for California in 2015. Cowan also urged residents to conserve their water use.

“The bottom line is we will continue to see more calls for water use restrictions throughout urban areas,” he said. “I expect those to be more and more severe over the course of the summer.”

Brian Stranko of the Nature Conservancy, which advocates for fish and wildlife, welcomed the meager

federal assistance for conservation programs if too much corn residue is removed.

A peer-reviewed study performed at the Energy Department’s Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 found that biofuels made with corn residue were 95 percent better than gasoline in greenhouse gas emissions. That study assumed some of the residue harvested would replace power produced from coal, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s unclear whether future biorefineries would do that.

Liska agrees that using some of the residue to make electricity, or planting cover crops, would reduce carbon emissions. But he did not include those in his computer simulation.

Still, corn residue is likely to be

a big source early on for cellulosic biofuels, which have struggled to reach commercial scale. Last year, for the fifth time, the EPA proposed reducing the amount required by law. It set a target of 17 million gallons for 2014. The law envisioned 1.75 billion gallons being produced this year.

“The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,” which puts it in the same boat as cornbased ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels’ emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

Tilman said it was the best study on the issue he has seen so far.

increases, saying wetlands for migrating birds north of the Delta will benefit from the government’s decision to increase water flows, but wetlands in the Central Valley will continue to suffer.

He also praised the decision not to build rock barriers on the Delta, which would also block migrating salmon.

“We don’t have to do that right now,” Stranko said. “It’s a good thing.”

Jim Beck, manager of the Kern County Water Agency in Bakersfield, said most people think of a 5 percent increase as almost insignificant, but compared to receiving no water — what they had been told — that meager increase is huge. The agency provides 90 percent of its water to farmers.

“Our growers are really turning over every rock to find every bit of water,” Beck said. “This really changes things.”

All California farmers and water users get the advantage of the state’s 5 percent increase, if they’re tapped into California’s State Water

Project. Others tied to the federally run Central Valley Project north of the Delta get the 75 percent increase with the April 18 announcement.

Yet those using federal water south of the Delta remain at a zero water allotment, including hundreds of Central Valley farmers who rely on the Westlands Water District, the nation’s largest supplier of water for agricultural use.

Gayle Holman, a Westlands spokeswoman, said its farmers will continue to rely on ground wells to make up for water they’re not getting from reservoirs and canals, she said.

There’s an indirect benefit to the increase in water for farmers in the north, Holman said, noting that it adds water into the system and makes water transfers a little more available for southland farmers to buy, although at top dollar.

“The situation is still very severe,” she said. “It is definitely one where growers are literally taking it day by day.”

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Big climate report: Warming is risk for people The Associated Press

YOKOHAMA, Japan — If you think of climate change as a hazard for some far-off polar bears years from now, you’re mistaken.

That’s the message from top climate scientists who gathered in Japan in March to assess the impact of global warming.

In fact, they will say, the dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and very human.

“The polar bear is us,” says Patricia Romero Lankao of the federally financed National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., referring to the first species to be listed as threatened by global warming due to melting sea ice.

She will be among the more than 60 scientists in Japan to finish writing a massive and authoritative report on the impacts of global warming.

With representatives from about 100 governments at the meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, they’ll wrap up a summary that tells world leaders how bad the problem is.

The key message from leaked drafts and interviews with the authors and other scientists: The big risks and overall effects of global warming are far more immediate and local than scientists once thought.

It’s not just about melting ice, threatened animals and plants. It’s about the human problems of hunger, disease, drought, flooding, refugees and war, becoming worse.

The report says scientists have already observed many changes from warming, such as an increase in heat waves in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Severe floods, such as the one that displaced 90,000 people in Mozambique in 2008, are now more common in Africa and Australia. Europe and North America are getting more intense downpours that can be dam-

The key message can be summed aging. Melting ice in the Arctic is not only affecting the polar bear, up in one word that the overall rebut already changing the culture and port uses more than 5,000 times: livelihoods of indigenous people in risk.

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Its reports have reiterated what percent by 2050 because of warmer nearly every major scientific orga- temperatures and changes in rain nization has said: The burning of patterns. Hotspots of hunger may coal, oil and gas is producing an emerge in cities. yy Water — About one-third increasing amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, such as carbon of the world’s population will see dioxide. Those gases change Earth’s groundwater supplies drop by more climate, bringing warmer tempera- than 10 percent by 2080, when tures and more extreme weather, compared with 1980 levels. For every degree of warming, more of the and the problem is worsening.

The panel won the Nobel Peace world will have significantly less Prize in 2007, months after it issued water available. yy Health — Major increases its last report.

Since then, the impact group has in health problems are likely, with been reviewing the latest research more illnesses and injury from heat and writing 30 chapters on warm- waves and fires and more food and ing’s effects and regional impacts. water-borne diseases. But the report Those chapters haven’t been offi- also notes that warming’s effects on cially released but were posted on a health is relatively small compared with other problems, like poverty. skeptical website.

yy Wealth — Many of the poor will get poorer. Economic growth and poverty reduction will slow down. If temperatures rise high enough, the world’s overall income may start to go down, by as much as 2 percent, but that’s difficult to forecast. yy Violence — For the first time, the panel is emphasizing the nuanced link between conflict and warming temperatures. Participating scientists say warming won’t cause wars, but it will add a destabilizing factor that will make existing threats worse.

According to the report, risks from warming-related extreme weather, now at a moderate level, are likely to get worse with just a bit more warming.

While it doesn’t say climate change caused the events, the report cites droughts in northern Mexico and the south-central United States, and hurricanes such as 2012’s Sandy, as illustrations of how vulnerable people are to weather extremes.

It does say the deadly European heat wave in 2003 was made more likely because of global warming.

Texas Tech University climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who was not part of this report team, says the important nuance is how climate change interacts with other human problems: “It’s interacting and exacerbating problems we already have today.”

University of Colorado science policy professor Roger Pielke Jr., a past critic of the panel’s impact reports, said after reading the draft summary, “it’s a lot of important work . . . They made vast improvements to the quality of their assessments.”

Another critic, University of Alabama Huntsville professor John Christy, accepts man-made global warming but thinks its risks are overblown when compared with something like poverty. Climate change is not among the developing world’s main problems, he says.

But other scientists say Christy is misguided. Earlier this month, the world’s largest scientific organization, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published a new fact sheet on global warming.

It said: “Climate change is already happening. More heat waves, greater sea level rise and other changes with consequences for human health, natural ecosystems and agriculture are already occurring in the United States and worldwide.

These problems are very likely to become worse over the next 10 to 20 years and beyond.”

Texas Tech’s Hayhoe says scientists in the past may have created the impression that the main reason to care about climate change was its impact on the environment.

“We care about it because it’s going to affect nearly every aspect of human life on this planet,” she says.

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USPOULTRY accepting applications for Clean Water Awards TUCKER, Ga. — The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association is accepting applications for the 2014 Clean Water Awards. The awards recognize outstanding performance of wastewater treatment plants that operate at poultry processing facilities.

Winners will be announced at USPOULTRY’s 2014 Environmental Management Seminar to be held at the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort in Destin, Fla., on Sept. 25-26.

“Poultry companies continue

to be committed to environmental stewardship and do an excellent job operating their wastewater treatment facilities. They reclaim most of the water used in poultry processing and return it to the environment in excellent condition. We are pleased to sponsor this annual competition that highlights the efforts wastewater treatment professionals in the poultry industry take to protect our natural resources and enhance the environment,” said Elton Maddox,

Wayne Farms, Oakwood, Ga., and chairman of U.S. Poultry & Egg Association.

Awards are presented in two categories — full treatment and pretreatment. Full treatment facilities are those facilities that fully treat their wastewater prior to discharge into a receiving water or a land application system. Pretreatment facilities are those facilities that discharge pretreated effluent to publicly-owned treatment fa-

cilities for further processing. Any USPOULTRY member company is eligible to submit three nominees in each category. Facilities which have previously won the award may not be re-nominated for five years. The deadline for submitting applications is May 31, 2014.

An evaluation committee will review the applications and select semi-finalist facilities in each category. Award recipients will be selected after the evaluation commit-

tee completes a site visit where the semifinalists will have an opportunity to showcase their facility.

Award recipients will receive a trophy, be profiled on the USPOULTRY website and receive assistance from the association in publicizing the award on a local, regional and national level.

An application form can be obtained at www.uspoultry.org/environment/.

USDA to require reporting of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus cases WASHINGTON — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that in an effort to further enhance the biosecurity and health of the U.S. swine herd while maintaining movement of pigs in the U.S., the USDA will require reporting of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) and Swine Delta

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“USDA has been working closely with the pork industry and our state and federal partners to solve this problem. Together, we have established testing protocols, sequenced the virus and are investigating how the virus is transmitted,” Vilsack said. “Today’s actions will help identify gaps in biosecurity and help us as we work together to stop the spread of these diseases and the damage caused to producers, industry and ultimately consumers.”

In addition to requiring reporting of the PED virus, USDA will also require tracking movements of pigs, vehicles and other equipment leaving affected premises; however, movements would still be allowed.

USDA is also working with industry partners to increase assistance to producers who have experienced PEDv outbreaks in other critical areas such as disease surveillance,

herd monitoring and epidemiological and technical support.

As part of USDA’s coordinated response, USDA’s Farm Loan Programs is working with producers to provide credit options, including restructuring loans, similar to how the Farm Service Agency successfully worked with livestock producers affected by the blizzard in South Dakota. In the case of guaranteed loans, USDA is encouraging guaranteed lenders to use all the flexibility available under existing guarantees, and to use new guarantees where appropriate to continue financing their regular customers.

USDA is already providing assistance to researchers looking into this disease, with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) working with the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, to make models of the disease transmission and testing feedstuffs.

This modeling work is contributing to some experimental vaccines

to treat animals with the disease.

ARS also has a representative serving as a member of the Swine Health Board. USDA also provides competitive grant funding through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative program and anticipates some applications on PEDv research will be submitted soon.

In addition, USDA provides formula funds to states and universities through the Hatch Act and National Animal Health Disease Section 1433 for research activities surrounding this disease.

In conjunction with the pork industry, state and federal partners, the USDA is working to develop appropriate responses to the PEDv and Swine Delta Coronavirus.

A question-and-answer sheet on the reporting requirement is available on the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service website at www. aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/2014/faq_ped_reporting.pdf.

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Int’l. poultry professionals flock to UGA for course

By Merritt Melancon Special to Poultry Times

ATHENS, Ga. — More than 85 poultry professionals and scientists from Georgia, the U.S. and around the world gathered in Athens Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, for a comprehensive, four-day short course on the latest information on poultry production.

The University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science has hosted the Georgia International Poultry Short Course in January for more than 25 years in conjunction with the International Production and Processing Expo in Atlanta. It routinely draws poultry professionals from the U.S., Mali, Germany, Pakistan, Malaysia, Brazil, Canada and more than a dozen other nations.

Each year the short course focuses loosely around one poultry production topic.

“This year we focused on the interaction between management and flock health, which is an important issue all over the world. Our short course is unique, and we continue to try to offer something a little different every year,” said Dr. Mike Lacy, head of UGA’s Poultry Science Department located within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

One attendee, poultry farmer Dario Loureiro from the Brazilian state of Paraná, came because of

UGA’s reputation for pioneering poultry science research and a personal interest in improving climate control and ventilation in his poultry houses.

“I came here because, for poultry science, UGA is the best,” Loureiro said. “I was able to learn things that I couldn’t find in Brazil.”

UGA’s Poultry Science Department is one of few university programs that offer an in-depth, surveystyle class in poultry production for those in the poultry industry. Most other programs are either overviews — meant for beginning poultry producers — or targeted, issue-oriented classes that focus exclusively on one topic, like production, processing, health or food safety. The UGA poultry short course offers updates on all of these topics.

“We have people attending who build poultry houses, make feed, work in genetic selection, develop vaccines and manage farms,” said Dr. Brian Fairchild, a professor of poultry science at UGA and an organizer of the short course. “With this course they’re getting exposed to information concerning every part of poultry production — not just their area of expertise.”

UGA Extension poultry science personnel, led by UGA assistant professor Dr. Brian Kiepper, organized this year’s short course.

More information on the 2015

Jeniece G. Vinson/UGA

Short course attendees: Poultry farmers and scientists from around the world and the U.S. gathered recently at the University of Georgia for the UGA Department of Poultry Science’s annual International Poultry Short Course.

Georgia International Poultry Short Course or the UGA Department of Poultry Science can be obtained at www.poultry.uga.edu.

Merritt Melancon is a news editor with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

AMI members vote for NAMA merger WASHINGTON — American Meat Institute’s general members voted unanimously on April 16 to proceed with a merger with the North American Meat Association (NAMA).

The vote occurred during a special meeting of the AMI membership and is the last step necessary to finalize a merger, slated to occur Jan. 1, 2015.

AMI’s board voted April 2 to proceed with the merger and NAMA’s board also voted in favor of the merger March 22.

“The General Membership’s unanimous vote makes possible the formation of a new and stronger organization, well-positioned to meet the challenges of the future,” said AMI Chairman Greg Benedict,

chief operating officer and president of American Foods Group, who serves on the merger committee.

“Our two organizations now will create a transition committee to begin the process of merging our two organizations’ operations and governing structure. This is a positive development and one that stands to serve our industry well.”

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Agribusiness mgmnt. degree available through Penn State Online UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nation’s increasing focus on local and regional food systems, renewable energies and maintaining natural resources is leading to double-digit job growth in these occupation sectors, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Adults working in these sectors who have some college but not a four-year degree, and who need a degree for career advancement, now have a convenient option. Penn State is offering its bachelor of science degree in agribusiness management online through the Penn

State World Campus.

“The agribusiness industry accounts for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. gross national product and employs close to one-fourth of the U.S. labor force,” said Spiro E. Stefanou, Penn State professor of agricultural economics and undergraduate coordinator for the agribusiness management program.

Factors contributing to the rosy jobs outlook in agribusiness and related sectors, USDA reports, are the improving economy, retirements of baby boomers, consumers’ preferences for nutritious and safe foods

and shifting global markets.

“Penn State has a robust agribusiness management degree program that offers emerging professionals a vibrant educational opportunity to prepare for this career,” Stefanou said. “This degree also is ideal for adults already in this field who want to advance their career.”

Stefanou noted that a special feature of this program is its grounding in the agricultural and food system.

“Students will receive specialized training in this system, but the concepts and skills they learn can be applied broadly and transferred to

other areas,” he said. “In addition to learning the abstract concepts of agribusiness management, students will learn how to apply these concepts to make a difference on the job.”

Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has offered the bachelor of science degree in agribusiness management on campus since 1977. The 120-credit online program is designed for adults who have an associate degree in a related field. Students can customize the bachelor’s degree for their career goals and can take courses part time while working.

Graduates will be prepared for careers in agricultural and life sciences industries, including input markets, farm production, commodities marketing and processing, food manufacturing and distribution and food retailing.

Applications are being accepted for Penn State’s online agribusiness management bachelor’s degree.

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$61M funding to conserve North American wetlands WASHINGTON — The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved $61.3 million in funding to protect, restore and enhance more than 205,000 acres of wetlands and associated uplands in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

“Conservation of our nation’s wetlands is critical to protecting our wildlife, watersheds, coastal communities and important economic activities,” said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, chairwoman of the commission. “Wetlands not only are home to hundreds of species of migratory birds, but they also provide us with clean water, act as buffers against storms, support our vibrant coastal fishing industries and provide unique opportunities for outdoor recreation.”

The commission approved $54.7 million in grants through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to protect, restore and enhance 200,069 acres of habitat for migratory birds in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, leveraging an additional $92.6 million in matching funds.

The commission also approved nearly $6.6 million for fee and ease-

ment land acquisitions of 5,072 acres on five national wildlife refuges. The funds were raised largely through the sale of Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps, commonly known as “Duck Stamps.”

“These grants are critical to maintaining the health and vitality of America’s wetlands and the abundance and variety of wildlife they support,” said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe. “Wetlands are particularly crucial to migratory birds all along their flyways. These grants will enable our partners in Canada, Mexico and the United States to protect and improve the quality of these habitats.”

The five commission-approved refuge projects are: yy Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas.

Boundary addition and price approval for a high-priority 1,227-acre tract for $1,718,200. yy San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge, Brazoria County, Texas.

Boundary addition and price approval for 30 acres for $138,500. yy Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge, Liberty County, Texas.

Boundary addition and price approval for 234 acres for $162,399. yy Tulare Basin Wildlife Management Area, Kern and Tulare counties, Calif. Acquisition of 305 acres in easement for $782,000. yy Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, Union and Morehouse parishes, La. Boundary addition of 18,711 acres and acquisition of 3,276 acres for $3,830,013. Additionally, the commission gave the green light for the potential future boundary expansion that would add 15,435 acres to that Refuge’s acquisition boundary.

Examples of projects funded through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act include: yy In North Dakota, the Chase Lake Area Wetland project will restore and enhance 43,785 acres to improve habitat for migratory waterfowl. Through this project, partners will protect wetland-associated uplands to provide essential nesting habitat for waterfowl and other species, and minimize the influx of sediments and pesticides into these wetland basins. yy In Hawaii, the Upper Laupahoehoe Nui Watershed Reserve

project will enhance 2,000 acres of wetlands for endangered seabird populations by removing invasive plants to promote the growth and establishment of native plant communities. yy In the Canadian Prairie/Parkland and Western Boreal Forest, which support 72 percent of North America’s breeding ducks, Ducks Unlimited Canada will protect 9,918 acres through land purchases and enhance an additional 3,438 acres by building wetlands infrastructure and converting vegetative cover. yy In Tamaulipas, Mexico, the Enhancement of Wetland Habitat for Migratory Waterfowl on the Coastal Plain project will establish a hydraulic system to restore 1,609 acres of freshwater wetlands and work with landowners to protect these restored acres through conservation agreements.

The commission chairman is secretary of the interior. Its members include U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Mark Pryor of Arkansas; U.S. Reps. John Dingell of Michigan and Robert Wittman of Virginia; and Secretary of Agricul-

ture Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy.

For every dollar spent on Federal Duck Stamps, 98 cents go directly to acquire habitat for protection in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

The commission oversees the use of Federal Duck Stamp funds for the purchase and lease of wetland habitats for national wildlife refuges.

To date, close to 6 million acres of wetlands have been purchased using more than $800 million in Duck Stamp revenue.

The North American Wetlands Conservation Act is the only federal grants program dedicated to the conservation of wetland habitats for migratory birds. Since 1990, approximately 5,000 partners in more than 2,000 projects have received more than $1.2 billion in grants. The grants have leveraged another $2.6 billion in matching funds to help improve more than 27 million acres of habitat.

More information about the grant projects is available at www.fws. gov/birdhabitat/Grants/NAWCA/ index.shtm

Initiative seeks improved water infrastructure in U.S.-Mexico border region WASHINGTON — USDA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border.

This initiative is part of USDA and EPA’s ongoing partnership to increase the sustainability of rural drinking water and wastewater systems.

“For many living along the U.S.Mexico border, access to safe, reliable water and wastewater treatment — something that most Americans take for granted — is nonexistent,” USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

“We cannot tackle the problem of persistent poverty in the region

without first addressing these stunning infrastructure failures, which have serious health, environmental and economic consequences. The resources provided through USDA and EPA will help mitigate health and environmental risks, advance economic development and improve the quality of life for families living in the region.”

“Americans deserve access to clean drinking water and adequate wastewater systems,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “EPA is proud to partner with USDA to help communities along the border tackle serious environmental and public health concerns.”

Many border communities lack the funds to build or rebuild their

drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. Failing wastewater systems can significantly harm the environment, spilling untreated wastewater into streets, streams and rivers and forcing raw sewage to back up into homes. Failing and inadequate water systems can harm community health by increasing the risk of water-borne illnesses such as salmonella and hepatitis A and gastrointestinal diseases.

USDA and EPA have conducted an initial needs assessment for water and wastewater infrastructure in the border region. The findings are published in the “U.S. (FJ-RWD1) Mexico Border Scoping Assessment Phase 1 Report.” The report identified communities in Arizona,

California, New Mexico and Texas that need improved water infrastructure and/or face environmental and/or public health risks associated with inadequate or failing water infrastructure systems.

USDA plans to award up to $500,000 through Rural Development’s Technical Assistance and Training Grant program to a private, non-profit group for an in-depth priority assessment of the counties identified in the report. The assessment will include recommendations on the best way to deliver technical assistance. USDA anticipates that this analysis will be completed in late 2014.

Based on this analysis, USDA and EPA will target technical assistance

to the neediest communities and establish partnerships to provide or improve access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

USDA has invested more than $125 million in water and waste projects in colonias since the start of the Obama administration. Colonias are small, rural communities along the border, some in federally-recognized Native American tribal areas, that have not had regular access to water and modern sanitation systems because that type of infrastructure was not required to be installed at the time the properties were sold and their houses built.

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Markets

conditions following the weekend.

Prices were trending firm to higher for tenders and breast cuts; steady to firm for dark meat items and generally steady for wings. Offerings of tenders and breast cuts were in close balance and moving well; dark meat items were light to moderate with drums, thighs and thigh meat in the best position. Market activity for parts was moderate to active. In production areas live supplies were moderate. Weights were mixed but mostly desirable.

Compiled by David B. Strickland, Editor 770-718-3442 dstrickland@poultrytimes.net

Nat’l. Broiler Market: (Apr. 21): Whole broiler/fryer prices were trending steady to firm in the West, firm elsewhere. Offerings were light to moderate for current

trade needs. Retail and foodservice demand was light to good, mostly moderate to good. Floor stocks were mixed. Market activity was slow to active, mostly moderate. In the parts structure, prices were moderate to good as dealers assessed the market

F owl: Apr. 18: Live spent heavy fowl

Final prices at Farm Buyer Loading (per pound): range 11.5-23.3¢

P arts: Georgia:

The f.o.b. dock quoted prices on ice-pack parts based on truckload and pool truckload lots for the week of Apr. 21: line run tenders $2.26½; skinless/boneless breasts $2.10; whole breasts $1.16; boneless/skinless thigh meat $1.40; thighs 75½¢; drumsticks 71¢; leg quarters 55¢; wings $1.36½.

N ational Slaughter: Broiler: Estimated slaughter

for week ending Apr. 19 is 150,686,000.

Actual slaughter for the week ending Apr. 12 was 156,422,000.

Heavy-type hen: Estimated slaughter for the week ending Apr. 19 is 1,504,000.

Actual slaughter for the week end-

The following chart provides an annual high and a comparison of recent activity of major poultry company stocks.

USDA Shell Eggs AMS weekly combined region shell egg prices Average prices on sales to volume buyers, Grade A or better, White eggs in cartons, delivered warehouse, cents per dozen.

Apr. 18

Company Annual High Apr. 15 Apr. 22

Cal-Maine 64.22 60.92 62.92 Campbell Soup 48.83 44.17 44.73 37.28 30.87 31.27 ConAgra Hormel 49.47 47.34 47.90 Pilgrim’s Pride 22.60 21.48 22.47 Sanderson Farms 83.87 79.00 83.17 Seaboard 2948.24 2512.75 2551.94 Tyson 44.24 42.44 43.20

Extra Large Regions: Northeast 167.00 Southeast 169.50 Midwest 164.50 South Central 175.50 Combined 169.45

Large

Medium

166.00 140.00 167.50 146.00 162.50 136.50 175.50 150.50 168.27 143.59

Computed from simple weekly averages weighted by regional area populations

Grain Prices OHIO COUNTRY ELEV. Apr. 8 Apr. 15 Apr. 22 No. 2 Yellow Corn/bu. $4.73 $4.77 $4.66 Soybeans/bu. $14.66 $14.81 $15.04 (Courtesy: Prospect Farmers Exchange, Prospect, Ohio)

(Courtesy: A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.)

Broiler Eggs Set/Chicks Placed in 19 States EGGS SET (Thousands)

CHICKS PLACED (Thousands)

Mar. 22

Mar. 29

Apr. 5

Apr. 12

Mar. 22

Mar. 29

Apr. 5

Apr. 12

Del Fla Ga Ky La Md Miss Mo. N.C. Okla Pa S.C. Tex Va Other states

28,289 20,508 9,935 4,269 1,222 33,887 7,866 3,772 7,694 16,794 8,456 20,599 6,781 4,240 4,842 14,627 6,655 7,829

28,564 20,696 10,151 4,623 1,219 33,918 7,864 3,772 7,730 17,311 8,180 20,606 6,559 4,412 4,973 14,065 6,601 8,065

28,725 20,567 11,327 4,446 1,176 34,270 7,793 3,772 7,753 17,773 7,737 20,529 6,719 4,293 4,958 14,960 6,672 8,036

28,597 20,736 11,647 4,548 1,222 34,016 7,667 3,832 7,776 17,689 8,175 20,616 6,661 4,340 5,129 14,717 6,668 8,209

20,547 18,327 10,402 4,664 1,283 26,538 6,418 3,410 6,024 15,288 5,933 15,840 4,857 3,740 4,913 11,740 5,202 5,897

21,786 18,981 10,620 4,926 1,329 26,209 5,933 3,693 5,306 15,130 6,305 16,032 4,284 3,559 4,441 11,143 5,985 5,936

21,282 18,730 10,016 4,646 1,333 26,753 6,524 3,361 6,156 14,995 5,748 16,040 4,653 3,706 4,897 11,796 5,581 5,508

21,290 20,844 9,613 4,899 1,358 26,991 6,010 3,359 5,718 14,273 5,231 16,448 2,878 3,504 4,165 11,886 5,169 5,847

19 States Total

200,436

201,244

203,470

204,036

165,126

165,662

166,217

163,636

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101

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100

100

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1/Current week as percent of same week last year.

Estimates: The estimated number of broiler/ fryers available for slaughter the week ending Apr. 14 was 157.3 million head compared to 156.1 million head slaughtered the same week last year. The estimated U.S. slaughter for the week of Apr. 14 was 151 million head or 6.3 million less than estimated available. For the week of Apr.26, the estimated available is 152.5 million head, notes the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Poultry Programs.

Broiler/Fryer Report

Industry Stock Report

ing Apr. 12 was 1,535,000.

Light-type hen: Estimated slaughter for the week ending Apr. 19 is 1,537,000. Actual slaughter for the week ending Apr. 12 was 1,732,000.

Total: Week of Apr. 19: 153,727,000.

Week of Apr. 12: 159,689,000.

USDA National Composite Weighted Average For week of: Apr. 18 For week of: Apr. 11 Majority (whole body) Eastern Region: New York: Central Region: Chicago: Western Region: Los Angeles:

$111.82 $108.88

Apr. 18 $1.10--$1.16 $1.10--$1.14 $1.04--$1.09 $1.04--$1.09 $1.12--$1.18 $1.12--$1.18

Negotiated prices in trucklot and less-than-trucklot quantities of ready-to-cook whole body broiler/fryers delivered to first receivers; prices in cents per pound.

Turkey Markets Weighted avg. prices for frozen whole young turkeys Weighted average (cents/lb.) F.O.B. shipper dock National

Week ending Apr. 18 Last year Hens (8-16 lbs.)

101.78 94.64 Toms (16-24 lbs.)

100.28 97.50 Week ending Apr. 11 Hens (8-16 lbs.)

Toms (16-24 lbs.)

100.29 100.77

Mar. avg.

102.34 102.26

Egg Markets USDA quotations New York cartoned del. store-door: Apr. 15 Apr. 22 Extra large, down 30¢ $1.58--$1.62 $1.28--$1.32 Large, down 30¢ $1.56--$1.60 $1.26--$1.30 $1.26--$1.30 $1.09--$1.13 Medium, down 17¢ Southeast Regional del. warehouse: Apr. 15 Apr. 22 Extra large, down 40¢ $1.66--$1.82 $1.26--$1.65 Large, down 40¢ $1.65--$1.82 $1.25--$1.65 Medium, down 36½¢ $1.42--$1.65 $1.05½--$1.40

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White House plan targets methane emissions The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The White House announced a wide-ranging plan on March 28, aimed at cutting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, landfills and other sources, part of President Obama’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

The White House plan, which could lead to several new regulations on energy production and waste management, comes amid concerns about increased methane emissions resulting from an ongoing boom in drilling for oil and natural gas.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas released by landfills, cattle and leaks from oil and gas production.

It is 21 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, the most abundant global warming gas, although it doesn’t stay in the air as long. Methane emissions make up about 9 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to government estimates.

Experts say methane leaks can be controlled by fixes such as better

gaskets, maintenance and monitoring. Such fixes are also thought to be cost-effective, since the industry ends up with more product to sell.

In the booming Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana, huge amounts of methane and other gases are burned off, or flared, during oil production, wasting millions of dollars and contributing to air pollution.

The White House said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will study how methane is released during oil and gas drilling and decide by the end of the year whether to develop new regulations for methane emissions. If imposed, the regulations would be completed by the end of 2016, just before Obama leaves office.

The White House also said the Interior Department will propose updated standards to reduce venting and flaring of methane from oil and gas production on public lands. Next month, the Bureau of Land Management will begin a rule-making process to require the capture and sale of methane waste produced by coal mines on lands leased by the federal government.

This summer, the EPA will propose updated standards to reduce methane from new landfills and consider whether to impose new standards for existing landfills.

In June, the USDA and other agencies will release a strategy for voluntary steps to reduce methane emissions from cattle, with the goal of cutting dairy sector greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

Environmental groups praised the White House plan, although they noted that many details remain incomplete.

“The important thing is they charted a specific pathway forward, which we think should lead and will lead to additional standards for (reducing) methane leakage,” said David Doniger, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

“A federal strategy to reduce venting, flaring and leaks of natural gas is good for the environment and good for national energy security,” said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Industry groups reacted warily.

While they support continued efforts to reduce methane emissions, officials cautioned against new regulations.

“Additional regulations are not necessary and could have a chilling effect on the American energy renaissance, our economy and our national security,” said Howard Feldman, director of regulatory and scientific affairs for the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s chief lobbying group.

“Smart, cost-effective investments in system modernization can continue, and accelerate, the trend in decreasing natural gas emissions,” said Dave McCurdy, president and CEO of the American Gas Association, which represents more than 200 local energy companies.

The White House plan comes amid conflicting estimates about how much methane is produced by oil and gas production.

The EPA said in a report last spring said that tighter pollution controls instituted by the oil and gas industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million met-

ric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall. The figure is about a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates.

A University of Texas study published in September largely agreed with those findings, but another study published in November said government methane estimates are off by as much as 50 percent below actual methane emissions.

The debate over methane emissions comes as oil and gas drilling has expanded across the country amid improvements in drilling techniques that have allowed energy companies access to previously untapped areas.

Much of the increase is due to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling process that injects sand, water and chemicals to break apart rock and free the gas inside.

Improved technology has spurred a nationwide drilling boom but also has raised widespread concerns that fracking could lead to groundwater contamination and even earthquakes.

Ethanol producers complain about clogged rail line service The Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Ethanol producers say clogged rail lines and other shipping problems have forced them to reduce production of the fuel and contributed to higher prices.

The Renewable Fuels Association has criticized railroads and triggered a strong response from the Association of American Railroads.

RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen said railroads should take the blame for ethanol prices jumping more than $1 a gallon between early February and late March. That increase has contributed to higher average gasoline prices nationwide.

The ethanol industry was producing 949,000 barrels per day in December. By early March, that had dropped to 869,000 barrels per day because ethanol storage tanks were full and rail shipments were slowed.

“Nothing has changed with regard to ethanol production costs or efficiencies,” Dinneen said. “The only change has been abject failure of the rail system to adequately address the needs of all its customers.”

Railroads have also been criticized this year by farmers and grain elevators in North Dakota who complained about shipment delays.

Both the farm groups and the ethanol trade group question whether

the surge in crude oil shipments coming from North Dakota’s Bakken oil field is disrupting other shipments. Railroad officials say that’s not the case.

The major U.S. railroads delivered 434,042 carloads of crude oil in 2013, up from 236,556 carloads the year before.

But even with the significant growth, crude oil shipments remain a relatively small part of the total freight railroads handle.

Through the end of March, U.S. railroads had already hauled 6.8 million carloads this year — about 2 percent more than last year.

AAR CEO Ed Hamberger said

rail traffic slowed in parts of the country, but he said it’s preposterous to suggest the rail network is in disarray.

“Despite select regional service issues, railroads continue to move vast volumes of goods safely and efficiently,” he said.

Hamberger said railroads have done their best to deal with an exceptionally cold winter, sizeable grain harvest and increased coal demand.

“There have been recent rail service challenges in certain parts of the country and railroads are working around the clock to mitigate them,” he said.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a report issued April 13 that congestion on the rail network and cold weather are responsible for the ethanol shipment delays.

The EIA highlighted BNSF’s Galesburg, Ill., terminal as an example because many ethanol cars from Iowa pass through there. It said the amount of time railcars sat at a hub waiting to move doubled this year when it hit 60 hours in February.

Railroad performance statistics show that the waiting time has improved significantly since February and now is around 34 hours in Galesburg.

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WeighTech...Serving the Meat, Poultry and Seafood Industries WeighTech offers the finest food processing scales and equipment in the business. We specialize in custom equipment for poultry processors as well as meat and seafood processors. Our product line includes a wide variety of custom tailored equipment solutions that meet the labor goals, and budget constraints of our customers.

justable contrast and backlight • Displays in lbs., kg.,g., or oz.

• Communications available in infrared, RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet and Bluetooth • Wireless data collection using a handheld PDA with WeighTech data sync software.

• Scale base with stainless steel construction.

Some of our featured products include the Small scale and the Bench scale. Our small scales fit many needs including QA and portioning. Advantages of this product include: • Permanently seals, high impact, ABS alloy construction.

• Highly visible display with ad-

Our Bench scales serve the best of both worlds including functionality and durability. Advantages of this product include: • Displays in lb.,kg.,g.,or oz • Permanently sealed electronic enclosure of high impact ABS alloy construction • Highly visible display with adjust-

• Wireless data collection using a hand held PDA with WeighTech data sync software.

Our Mircoweigh indicator is the leading indicator for harsh wash down environments featuring key electronic components permanently sealed in ABS plastic enclosure, front access panel, easy to read displays, AC power or battery operated.

able contrast and backlight • Communications available in Infrared, RS-232, RS-485 and Bluetooth

Our equipment is designed to be user friendly and to deliver proven results. Looking for custom solutions for specific problems? Then you have found the right place…….

WeighTech.. For more information go to www.weighTechinc.com.

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Agrifans cut energy costs and provide benefits all year long Insist on Agrifan. Northwest designed the original agricultural ceiling fan. Manufactured for over 25 years with the same design. Agrifan was built for agriculture and has been proven in the industry to stand up to the tough conditions of poultry and livestock buildings, greenhouses, and other wet, dusty or extreme heat areas.

Efficient. Northwest’s 60” Agrifan continuously circulates the air, and does it more efficiently than other agricultural ceiling fans. At maximum speed of 330 RPM, Agrifan uses less than one amp as it moves the air at up to 43,500 CFM. Agrifan’s energy efficient motor runs on less energy than a 100 watt bulb.

Economical. When used with an existing ventilation or heating

system, Agrifans increase the efficiency of that system up to 30%. In less than one year an Agrifan system can pay for itself in energy savings.

Only Agrifan offers you all of these features:

•All metal—no plastic •Heavy duty PSC motor— 330 RPM Proven to Last. Agrifan has •Capacitor—Extra powerful 9.5 mf •Sprayproof—Passes been tested by farmers for over the UL Water Spray and 25 years and has proven its Humidity Test strength and reliability. With specially engineered and lubricated •Moisture Resistant—Unique one-way condensation relief plug heat-resistant bearings, triple •Heat Resistant—specially sealed neoprene moisture seals, and a and lubricated high heat bearings unique one-way condensation •Corrosion Resistant—baked plug - only Agrifan provides a epoxy prime and finish coats warranty for a full three years and •Full 3 year warranty a fan that can stand up to high •UL Listed heat, humidity and condensation.

Northwest Envirofan North America’s Leading Manufacturer of Quality Industrial, Commerical and Agricultural Ceiling Fans www.envirofan.com 800-236-7080

Model 190A

• Downblowing • Cord and Plug • 60” Curved Blades

Model 190C

• Reversing • Wire Leads • 56” Straight Blades

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REDESIGNED!

MADE IN USA

Not as labor intensive to install or clean as competition

Slats provide a strong walking surface with minimal sag

PATENT NO. 6,475,078 MADE IN USA

IMPROVED SHUT-OFF

TJ4200 4-WAY GRAVITY ATTIC INLET WITH WIRE SHUT-OFF Double L’s patented TJ4200 has counterbalance weighted louvers that direct air along ceiling and hold air currents up longer while evenly mixing attic air with room air.

The TJ4200 Attic Inlet tempers the air for more uniform house temperatures resulting in less drafty conditions and chilling during brooding. Drier litter, lower fuel costs, and lower ammonia concentrations.

Easy snap together assembly - no tools required!

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Smooth, non-porous surface is easy to clean and disinfect by carrying 4’ sections out of house for easy cleaning with pressure washer without hassle of having to disassemble flooring

RED ROOSTER OVERLAPPING (OL) & NON-OVERLAPPING (NOL) POULTRY FLOORING Double L’s Red Rooster Flooring has 50% open area that permits excellent manure filtration with minimum build-up for a clean, sanitary environment. nt. Each piece is easily installed on 2” x 4” or 2” x 6” wooden supports and can be cut to specific sizes. Reinforced pre-molded screw holes allow for fast assembly of slats to frame.

Solid structure with stability - used with success under birds of all sizes!

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Southwestern Sales - Not Just Curtains Anymore!

Southwestern Sales started supplying Polylite sidewall curtain material to the poultry industry over 34 years ago. The “Red and Blue” stripes became the industry standard for quality and durability. Over the years house designs and energy considerations have brought about many changes and Southwestern Sales has evolved to meet those needs with new and costeffective products. Supplying curtain material and curtain products to the poultry, swine and dairy industries is still a very important part of our business, but “WE AREN’T JUST CURTAIN ANYMORE.” Over the past several years Southwestern Sales has diversified into new industries with several new and innovative products. ®

Staying close to our roots in the poultry industry, Southwestern Sales has recently added several new products to our product line which help growers improve their operating performance and lower their operating costs.

Here are some of the great new products offered by Southwestern Sales: V-FlexTM and S-FlexTM End Doors

SAVE ENERGY and IMPROVE PERFORMANCE with our new V-FlexTM and SFlexTM End Doors.

• End doors which leak air and light have always been a problem for poultry growers. Increasing requirements to maintain static pressure required an improved door design and

Southwestern Sales has responded.

• The insulated V-FlexTM or S-FlexTM design seals against the end of the house and provides a complete solution to rising energy costs, light control and static pressure requirements.

• V-FlexTM or S-FlexTM End Doors love static pressure. The more fans you run, the tighter seal you get. No Leaks! No pulling doors off track!

• T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors seal, they flex to changing conditions, their light weight is easier on inlet machines, and Quad-Flex insulating technology provides maximum energy savings.

Stir Fan – 18”

T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors

SAVE MONEY and IMPROVE PERFORMANCE with our new T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors.

• Existing brands of Tunnel doors are expensive, heavy, and difficult to seal. Southwestern Sales’ new T-FlexTM design has solved these problems. The new T-FlexTM Tunnel Door comes in standard lengths of 20ft and 25ft, and standard heights of 4ft, 5ft, and 6ft. A 5ft x 20ft section weighs only about 45lbs, which is less than 1/3 the weight of other brands of tunnel doors. Its light-weight and flexible design, allows the T-FlexTM Tunnel Door to conform to the tunnel inlet, even when it settles or changes over time.

• Using our Quad-Flex insulating technology, T-FlexTM Tunnel Doors provide maximum energy efficiency during cold weather conditions.

• Delivered completely assembled with mounting hardware installed, significant labor savings can be passed on to the grower because installation time is cut by at least 50%.

HIGH EFFICIENCY and HIGH QUALITY combine to make Southwestern Sales’ 18” Stir Fan the best in the industry.

• With its completely sealed and high energy efficient motor, all powder coated components, UL rating for Outdoor Use, the Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan provides the highest quality of any stir fan on the market.

• The CFM and CFM/Watt ratings for Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan is better than most 20” fans offered by other brands.

• Completely assembled with attached 10ft power cord, the Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan is ready to use right out of the box.

• For maximum air movement at minimum expense, Southwestern Sales 18” stir fan is the high quality solution.

Southwestern Sales Co. P.O. Box 1257 • Rogers, Arkansas 72757 479-636-6943 800-636-1975 Fax: 479-636-4718 www.swsales.com

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Do you need to clean your eggs?

The traditional and non-traditional methods Our company receives numerous calls and e-mails on the question of: “Should I be cleaning my eggs?” And our stance is a resounding “yes”, but with a slight pause. Why the pause? It isn’t, depending upon your situation, that easy to answer. So what is the issue then?

Quite simply-the issue lies with contaminated eggs that are covered with bacteria (on the shell) or penetrating into shell.

There are numerous ways to clean an egg: dry cleaning, wet cleaning, rinsing and washing. There are a majority of chicken owners’ that simply wipe the egg off and put it into storage.

However, in the past five years, a rise in Salmonella Enteritidis has caused concern for the FDA, and hence a stricter policy enforcing better regulation on egg control. (FDA.gov) Moreover, the process to remove bacteria and kill microbes that remains in 10% of eggs laid and remain present in the egg white or yolk (FDA.gov). However, the new regulations by the FDA and USDA on sanitizing require at least a four step process to eliminate all growth of bacteria. Both include in this process a sanitization method of wet washing and rinsing (FSIS.USDA.gov). Yet, these stringent regulations apply only to the commercial industry, which leads the backyard grower to local store without any policies to enforce a proper method of sanitization.

It is important to note that the issues with the soap or chemical approach are the implication of the chemical seeping into the egg and contaminating the eggs. Before we move forward, it is important to raise the flag of biasness now. We promote and stand by the allnatural use of enzymes to clean eggs.

What are Enzymes and how do they work?

The utilization of enzymes as a cleansing agent within products has been around for the last 40 years. Enzyme cleaners are non-toxic and effective; they clean better than toxic and non-toxic detergents.

Enzymes cleaners remove odors by breaking down the materials causing the odor. Consumers use enzymes for stain removal & odor removal, and laundry, carpet and upholstery cleaning. The most commonly used application and manufacture of enzymes is washing agents (detergents); largest use of application in the industry. Consumers don’t realize they are actively using enzymes as their washing agent whenever they use a detergent. Or, in other applications, enzymes are used as an auxiliary agent in the

POULTRY TIMES, April 28, 2014

Paid Advertorial manufacturing process within finished products. The introduction the surface. of enzymatic formulas within the environmental and agriculture Wet cleaning is prohibited by state regulation for some markets. industry has been used for the past two decades. Studies performed Specifically, Minnesota regulations prohibit the sale of wet-cleaned at the University of Wisconsin have shown the recontamination, of eggs to stores. Immersion washing is not condoned and may be using chemical vs. enzymes, as a conclusive result that enzymatic prohibited. cleanser keeps the egg sanitized longer than conventional chemical Dry cleaning using a brush, sandpaper, or a loofah sponge has based products. fewer issues than wet cleaning, and is recommended for small producers. Or, the process of wiping is using an enzymatic product “Just the Facts, Ma’am-just the facts.” cleans the surface of the egg, using natural enzymes, to remove Now that you understand where our company stands, let’s go over that contaminants and reduce the amount of time the egg is saturated just the facts and methodology of chicken laying, collecting and with merely water. storage.

If detergents or other additives are used for wet cleaning, they The process of egg collection extends beyond just the procedure must either be non-synthetic or among the allowed synthetics on of washing eggs. The gathering, and one commonly overlooked, is National List at §205.603 of the National Organic Standard. the first, and most important, step. Providing a healthy environment the Synthetics include: chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, ozone and peracetic for your flock is vital in producing the best eggs. Clean, parasitefree, and ammonia-free environment aides in a heavier, stress-free acid. These serve mostly as sanitizers rather than as washing agents. and more productive chicken. Proper storage of your eggs is necessary to avoid further contamination. You should store the eggs • Washing – Eggs need to be colder than the water they are washed in a refrigerator at a constant temperature of 45 F (7.2 C) ambient in. Warmer water contracts the shell, tightening it, and providing a temperature if kept for more than 36 hours; eggs are susceptible to barrier. Eggs should be washed in water that is at least 20°F warmer changes in temperature, which may result in a loss of quality. You than the warmest eggs, and the water should be at least 90°F. This can read more about how to store your eggs from the following links: is to prevent water that is cooler than the egg from forcing the egg contents to contract and pull water and microbes through the shell http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/ into the egg and cause contamination. However, the wash water EggSafety/EggSafetyActionPlan/ucm056862.htm should not be more than 40°F above the temperature of the eggs http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/eggstorage.html or the eggs may experience thermal cracking. Washing eggs come with two methods: chemical or natural. The downfall of using a What methods are being used to clean eggs?

The current environment of how poultry owners’ clean their eggs is: chemical based product with the water is risk of penetration of it past the bloom and into the yolk. However, a non-chemical, more • No cleaning or dry cleaning natural approach (enzymes) causes no harm to the surface, bloom or • Soap & Water yolk; i.e. taste, smell and quality.

• Chemicals – chlorine or bleach Although the USDA does not condone immersion washing (soaking • Enzyme based products or standing), a majority of small producers do not have to abide or • Wet Cleaning/Wiping – An egg is covered by a waxy layer (the cuticle) that helps prevent microbes from entering the pores. While operate under the legislation. the cuticle does provide a great barrier against contaminants, it does Who uses these methods? not prevent water to penetrate past its shell pore and pose a threat Organic Farms typically rinse the eggs, if dry cleaning, with water to microbial penetration (Zeidler, 2002). The process of wet cleaning and depend upon the natural sterile process of the chicken to protect is to allow water to pour over the surface of the egg in a continuous its eggs. These are your non-traditional methods and represent less flow that allows the water to drain away, while removing dirt from than 20% of chicken owners’ (FDA, 2009)

Backyard owners are using a soap and water mixture or enzymes based solution. This method is traditional among the majority of chicken owners’ (FDA, 2009).

The commercial industry (store bought) standards for egg cleansing are heavily regulated by FDA and USDA. The process for cleansing eggs is to use a chemical based solution – in the form of chlorine or bleach. This explains why you receive very white (bleached) eggs in the store.

Inspection You may be asking yourself -if the commercial industry is regulated

by FDA and USDA, then who overlooks the organic, backyard and local stores? The USDA will do random blue light testing to ensure eggs are contaminant free and abide by all safety standards. The blue light, when passed over a contaminated egg, will glow-this glow is the bacteria. If contamination is found, your entire stock may be pulled by the inspector.

Grading The primary USDA egg grades are AA, A, and B. Grades are based on both exterior and interior quality. For specifics on egg grading, see the USDA-AMS Poultry Programs web site.

Grading also involves sorting eggs into weight classes or sizes (peewee, small, medium, large, extra-large and jumbo). The USDA Egg Grading Manual details what an egg of a specific class needs to weigh. Many producers do not grade but mark their eggs as mixed, unclassified, or ungraded. Farm-scale equipment for grading is available through farm supply outlets such as NASCO. Packaging Eggs may be carton-packed according to size or as unsized.

Standard packaging for direct sale is by the dozen, half-dozen, or dozen-and-a-half. Cartons are typically made of pulp paper, Styrofoam or clear plastic.

Labeling Eggs packed under federal regulations require the pack date to be displayed on the carton. It is a three-digit Julian date that represents the consecutive day of the year. The carton is also dated with the ‘Sell-by’ or expiration date, which depends on the state requirements. Eggs with a federal grade must be sold within 30 days from day of pack.

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PRIEFERT RANCH EQUIPMENT

IN 1964, PRIEFERT RANCH EQUIPMENT BEGAN IN MT PLEASANT, TEXAS IN A LITTLE BACKYARD SHOP UNDER A SPREADING OAK TREE. MARVIN PRIEFERT INVENTED A NEW CATTLE HEAD GATE THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE CATTLE INDUSTRY. NUMEROUS PATENTS AND INVENTIONS LATER, PRIEFERT HAS BECOME KNOWN AS THE LEADER IN RANCH EQUIPMENT WORLDWIDE. .

IN 1989, PRIEFERT BEGAN MANUFACTURING THE LITTER SAVER. MOST PEOPLE REFER TO IT AS A TILLER, WHICH IS DEFINITELY INCORRECT. THE LITTER SAVER IS A HAMMER MILL. Unlike a tiller, that has fixed tines and

“WE DECIDED TO MAKE AN IMPLEMENT THAT WOULD BE AFFORDABLE MULTIUSABLE, AND A COMPLETE WINDROWING SOLUTION.”

rolls material over, the Litter Saver picks up all the material with curved hammers and throws it around inside the box at over 700 rpm’s. Most tillers will top out around 215 rpm’s. The Litter Saver pulverizes hard cake while lifting, mixing and aerating all of the bedding material to leave a soft springy finish that young chicks and turkey poults love. With thousands in the field, this machine has proven itself to be a valuable, low maintenance, economical resource to poultry growers across the country. DON’T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT; ASK ANY GROWER THAT HAS USED ONE. In the last five years, the poultry industry has had a minor revolution in how bedding material is treated. Most people have heard of or are familiar with windrowing. Priefert was approached early on by a major integrator to build something for this process. We decided to make an implement that would be affordable for growers, multi-usable, and most of all, be a complete windrowing solution. The Priefert Litter Back Blade and the Priefert Skid Steer Blade fit that bill. From initial windrowing, to turning, and to leveling, there is nothing on the market today that can do it ALL as economically as these blades. For more information about Priefert’s poultry equipment, visit www. priefert.com or call 1-800-527-8616 to speak to a friendly sales representative.

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Productive Birds Need Performance You Can Count On Paid Advertorial

We only use the best quality materials, Build Your Own Feeding System! offering an excellent balance of mechanical Growers need a cool weather ventilation The strength and chemical resistance. VAL-CO FUZE® ProLine Feeding System offers you the of watering! drinkers are often imitated, but our genuine ability to do something you’ve never been able precision quality can never be duplicated. to do before... build your own feeding system.

All of our precision nipples can easily be • Choice of pan diameters: 13 or 14 inch retrofitted into ANY existing watering line, • Choice of pan depth: shallow depth whether it’s ours or not, with the appropriate (2.4 in/61mm) or standard depth (3.0in/76mm) choice from our numerous adapters, • Choice of grill configurations: 13 spoke grills allowing you to upgrade your for 13 inch pans, and 14 spoke grills for 14 inch existing system to a VAL-CO pans. Additionally there is a 5 spoke general Watering System. This will purpose grill available for the 14 inch pans result in All grills are designed to VAL-CO manufactures better feed provide generous spacing complete watering systems for conver sion for today’s breeds of birds; broilers, roasters, breeders, and and weight and easy in and out of the turkeys of any age. By controlling the gains.

Our pan for brooding chicks. manufacturing of all the components, drinkers provide the The FUZE ProLine grills VAL-CO engineers its products to work right amount of water every are designed to virtually together as complete systems. Only genuine time. That’s performance eliminate trapping of chicks VAL-CO drinkers are made with you can count on. in the pan. precision from stainless steel parts manufactured on Swiss screw machines. 800-99VALCO (800-998-2526) • sales@val-co.com • www.val-co.com

Water... an essential part of life.

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All FUZE ProLine feeders feature three large feed windows for automatic and even pan flooding, increased material thickness to

improve pan life, polymer resins to reduce bacteria buildup and more. There is also an integrated hinge, to facilitate cleaning, & lock, to keep the grill securely attached to the pan. Combine this with a mechanical switch control pan that provides high reliability and ease of maintenance, and an optional end control unit bird attracting light – LED lights that emit wavelengths known to attract birds – and you have the best feeders on the market!

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Water In Poultry Barns Water is a bird’s most important nutrient … they consumes twice as much water as feed by weight every day. If a bird (of any age) does not have easy access to fresh water 24/7, their consumption of dry matter declines as does that bird’s profitability. Birds with restricted water intake do not produce eggs or meat to their full genetic potential.

Scale free clean water lines and water dispensing equipment, such as nipple and bell drinker cups, are critical components in today’s poultry meat and egg production. Hard water scaled water lines, controls and water dispensing equipment does not perform to the standards intended by the manufacture and to the expectations of the producer. Scaled water dispensing equipment can leak waste water creating wet litter that typically adds to the unwanted ammonia and flies in the barns.

TCP Water Solutions’ liquid D-CalCifi treats water systems to remove the scale and mineral deposits by holding the calcium, magnesium, iron and other minerals in water in suspension preventing further scaling. Once the lines are descaled, D-CalCifi lays down a microscopic film on all exposed water surfaces helping to protect against corrosion. The equipment will function better and require less maintenance labor. With reduced repair costs and extended equipment life, life becomes easier and facilities more profitable.

D-CalCifi is a ready-to-use NSF Standard 60 certified water treatment that is fed into the incoming water line by an accurate and reliable metering pump regulated by an inline water meter to not over or under feed the product. Simple, easy and accurate.

For information on how to economically address challenging scaled water lines and equipment using D-CalCifi, check our website www.tcpwater.com or contact Wayne Beath at TCP Water Solutions Inc. 630-945-4880.

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Composting, Simplified The EcodrumTM system is a proven technology, successfully installed on poultry operations throughout North America. The EcodrumTM is perfect for large scale animal production.

Benefits: To learn more about how the ecodrumTM can benefit your operation contact us at:

701-446-6139

Atlanta, GA byron@ecodrumcomposter.com

Clean and simple to operate Low cost operation Reduces odor and pathogens Maintains composting activity in cold weather Eliminates ground and water contamination Produces a high quality compost used as a soil enhancer

Ecodrum™ Compost System

Let me introduce to you a new alternative in composting technology.

The Ecodrum™ system manages poultry mortality in a cost effective and environmentally sound way. An Ecodrum™ can be sized to accomodate any farm, and can be expanded at any time to meet future requirements.

Most producers report that it takes only 10 to 15 minutes a day to operate, and they are creating a pathogen free compost that can be safely spread on the farm.

Looking for a change in your disposal method, call us today.

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That propane truck is driving away with YOUR MONEY! WARNING

$$$

If you’re not recovering heat energy, you’re wasting it.

And you’re losing money.

Break the heat-and-repeat cycle.

Aldes Heat & Energy Recovery Ventilators can help you save up to 40% of the propane used to heat your broiler houses. These units recover heat energy while exhausting stale air. The incoming fresh air is warmed with the recovered energy.

Better for the birds. Better for the environment.

Better for your bottom line.

Be ready for the next heating season. Call 800.255.7749 or visit www.aldes.us

A-V plastic poultry slats are made from UV protected polypropylene. Slats are lighter than wood and easy to move during clean out.

Smooth surface is easy to clean, promoting better hygiene and foot health.

Slats interlock for extra strength, surface continuity, and no separation. A-V slats are available in white or black.

Fiberglass frames are available for a complete flooring system.

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REEVES SUPPLY • Custom built cooling systems for specific cooling needs • Foam injected fiberglass tunnel doors • 18”,20” and 24” stir fans • Complete line of pumps, motors, filter housings and elements, fan belts and pullies

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