A3B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 7,1984
Poultry farmers to receive
additional state aid
LANCASTER
poultrymen battling a highly
pathogenic strain of avian flu
received encouraging news this
week as state officials announced
that additional state aid will soon
be available to compensate for
bird losses.
At a meeting Wednesday in
Harrisburg, state officials said
funds will be provided to reim
burse farmers for birds which died
of the highly pathogenic avian
virus before federal indemnity
programs took affect. Under the
prior program, farmers receive
indemnity payments only for the
bird losses which occurred after a
task force census was taken.
State Secretary of Agriculture
Penrose Hallowell said that many
farmers whose flocks were
depopulated had substantial death
losses prior to the USD A “ex
traordinary emergency”
declaration.
“We intend to provide state
funds for these farmers to cover
bird losses which are not eligible
under federal indemnities,”
Hallowell said.
According to state officials
working with task force personnel
sent to eradicate the deadly
disease, nearly 200,000 birds died
of the “hot” strain but were not
eligible for federal indemnities.
The state Department of
Agriculture began mailing funding
application forms to farmers on
Wednesday. Funds for reim
bursement for death losses will be
made available after Jan. 24, the
deadline for return of the ap
plications.
Additional state assistance will
be determined, Hallowell said,
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“when we have Uk information
from farmers to properly assess
the total costs of such a program,
and if efforts to secure state
legislation are successful.”
Another area where poultrymen
have been faced with high costs is
cleaning and disinfecting.
Hallowell said his department has
been working with legislators to
secure state authority and funding
to help reimburse some of these
costs.
“If state legislative efforts are
successful, we will' provide ad
ditional compensation for portions
of certain other costs, including
cleaning and disinfection,”
Hallowell said.
In other matters, the Scientific
and Technical Advisory Com
mittee regarding avian flu met
recently and recommended to the
USDA that all flocks infected with
avian flu be depopulated. The
committee advised that to
eradicate the disease both high and
low pathogenic flocks need to be
depopulated.
the recommendation is based on
two premises. First, committee
members said, laboratory results
are no longer precise as they had
been in the beginning. To be
determined highly pathogenic, the
serum from infected flocks killed
six of eight test birds. Today, the
serum is killing a varying number
of birds, making diagnosis almost
impossible.
Secondly, and more importantly,
is that no progress has been made
in eradicating the disease.. The
committee attributes this to the
continued presence of low
pathogenic flocks.
If the committee’s recom-
mendation is accepted, all flocks
confirmed with avian flu in the
future would be destroyed.
According to Tim Allwem, a
spokesman for the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation, the Scientific
and Technical Advisory Com
mittee is strictly advisory to the
USDA and has no official
authority. To date, task force
officials had not met to discuss the
committee’s recommendation,
Allwein said.
In an update on the avian flu
situation, 222 flocks had been
confirmed hot as of Thursday.
This includes nine million birds. A
total of 217 flocks, representing 8.8
million birds, had been
depopulated
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