EPA should recognize progress in Chesapeake Bay, poultry industry says
A poultry industry representative told a House Agriculture Subcommittee that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should recognize the poultry industry’s tools and programs that are improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and across the nation.
Hobey Bauhan, president of Virginia Poultry Federation, told the Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry that family poultry farms in Virginia for more than a decade have expanded their conservation practices to enhance water quality.