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Field day draws from 11 counties
DELMAR, Del. — More than 450 people attended an Extension poultry field day at a newly built production farm on March 4. Attendees came from 11 Delmarva counties: Each of Delaware’s counties, Accomack County, Va., and seven from Maryland’s Eastern...
read moreProcessing plants experience production boost
The region’s poultry processing plants are boosting production due to the coronavirus, and growers could see shorter waits between flocks in the future as a result, industry experts said last week.Perdue’s Milford, Del., plant is running six days a...
read moreJudge rules in favor of contested FSA loan
WASHINGTON — A federal court judge has ruled in favor of USDA and its Farm Service Agency in a lawsuit brought by a national environmental group over a loan guarantee to a Maryland poultry grower. The decision, from Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell in the...
read moreSmall flock owners itching to meet increased demand
GRANITE, Md. — A smaller “gentleman’s farm,” Playtime Pastures is “nowhere near on the scale of larger poultry operations typically found either on Maryland’s Eastern Shore or in the heart of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. In fact, “we only run a...
read moreThe home hatchery (Backyard Flocks)
(Editor’s note: Dr. Jonathan Moyle is a poultry Extension specialist with the University of Maryland.)When the economy gets rough, we often see an increase in home production of poultry. Hatching eggs at home is a popular way to increase the size of...
read morePoultry infectious bronchitis weighs in on COVID-19 (Poultry Diagnostics)
(Editor’s note: Daniel Bautista is director of Lasher Laboratory at the University of Delaware.)These are unprecedented times. The COVID-19 pandemic has swiftly disrupted our daily lives to say the least but more importantly poses a real threat to...
read moreWebber uses social media to educate
CLAYTON, Del. — Bobbi Jo Webber had been using social media on a personal level for years before using Facebook to show people how her family raises organic chicken for Perdue Farms’ Coleman Natural Foods. Along with managing eight chicken houses,...
read moreDelmarva chicken industry growing, but slowly
GEORGETOWN, Del. — Delmarva’s chicken industry grew at slower pace in 2019 than the chicken industry did elsewhere in the United States, according to new data released by Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc. The Delmarva chicken community did increase the...
read moreFarm Credit to hold poultry growers seminar on March 25
WESTMINSTER, Md. — Getting MidAtlantic Farm Credit will hold a Poultry Growers Seminar at the Powellville Fire Department in Pittsville, Md., on March 25 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The theme of the seminar is “Managing Your Operation in the Current...
read moreHelping to improve disease response (Poultry Research)
(Editor’s note: Eric Benson is a professor at the University of Delaware, Department of Animal and Food Sciences.)Disease pressure continues to be a concern for producers, whether it’s a recent coryza break in poultry on Delmarva or African Swine...
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