USPOULTRY seminar focuses on improving practices, adapting to challenges
Speakers detail food safety and biosecurity issues facing poultry producers.
USPOULTRY’s 2022 Live Production, Welfare and Biosecurity Seminar offered attendees a wide selection of topics relevant to multiple levels of leadership across the poultry and egg value chain. Attendees took full advantage of the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers and discuss ways to improve welfare and biosecurity.
Dr. Ben Wileman, veterinarian at Select Genetics, reminded attendees that biosecurity is not just a concern for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), but is an important tool in managing many other diseases that can affect poultry. Attendees were presented with the reality of integrated biosecurity, namely that farm-level decisions can have tremendous impact not only on the local and regional level, but internationally. He urged that biosecurity must be effective and practical at the farm level, including the need for procedures to be easy to do, easy to maintain, easy to communicate and not overly cumbersome. Another point Wileman made was that all members of the organization must be willing to support each other by identifying and addressing lapses in the biosecurity plan.