Broilers

This article offers an in-depth overview of HPAI, subtypes of HPAI, clinical signs of HPAI, how to protect your flocks from HPAI, and how to report the suspect HPAI infection in your flock.

This article offers information on response to HPAI and designation of control area, permitting for poultry movement, which products require a permit to move, how to initiate a permit request, requirements to obtain a permit movement, and how the secure poultry supply (SPS) can help in the permitting process.

April 2022 Edition of the Commercial Poultry News: 1- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza! A Commercial and Backyard Danger; 2 - Taking Biosecurity Measures to Limit Topics: Your Legal Liability for the Spread of Avian Influenza; 4 - Avian Flu Could Threaten Eastern Shore Poultry Flocks; 5 - Understanding What An Easement by Necessity Is and When One Is Created; 7- Chicken Growers Make Good Neighbors by Raising Chickens, Planting Buffers, and Saving Bees; 8 - Coming Events!

Flies, beetles, and mites are often a major concern for commercial poultry operations in the northeastern United States.

Researchers from the University of Maryland are surveying the estate and succession planning needs of Maryland agricultural operations. 

The alternative to hatching eggs in a hatchery is on-farm hatching. This system is being investigated in Europe. With the on-farm hatching system, the steps in this process are a little different. 

In late 2022, a citizens’ group brought suit against U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Farm Service Agency (FSA), Farm Credit Mid-America, and two poultry growers (Dan Nguyen and Trang Nguyen) for claims that the loan guarantees USDA gave on Farm Credit loans to the two growers violated federal law.

Key Biosecurity Practices to continue to check and be diligent about

The Mid-Atlantic region’s poultry growers may have started to receive settlement forms recently for broiler grower class action lawsuit settlement.

An interesting potential class action was recently filed in U.S. district court in South Carolina involving a broiler grower and Amick Farms.