Avian flu boosts N.Y. broiler production ITHACA, N.Y. Commercial associate in the department of double this year in New York State production in New York State at production of broiler chickens in poultry and avian sciences in the to more than two million birds and the 1984 Poultry Conference held New York State is staging a New York State College of could double again next year. here. The annual event, conducted comeback after an absence of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Aho made this projection in a July 25-26, focused on new trends more than a quarter century. Cornell University, reports that presentation discussing the and developments affecting the Paul W. Aho, a research the production of broilers will feasibility of commercial broiler poultry industry in New York. 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Phono; (717) 464-3321 We UPS Anywhere lust Call 117-464-3321 Or Toll Free (Area Codes 717 6 215) 1-800 Store Hours 7320053 Mon Thurs - Sat ' M 7 30 AM -6:00 PM 7.30 AM - 5:00 PM Fri. 7:30 AM - 9 00 PM SPEEDY CORNCRIBS • Easy to erect • Rods in lead of bolts on wire mesh Sizes 900 Bushel to 1200 Bushel PRICE •4.59 *6.29 White Creosote Point • Lead-free linseed oil base for barn, outbuildings, fence, etc • Harmless to livestock • No 100 • 2 Gallon Size •16.9920., Reg. $22.95 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, My 28,1984—A5S Also known as fryers, broilers are meat-type chickens, usually seven weeks old and weighing about four pounds each. The last tune broilers were raised on a large scale in New York State was in the 19505. Since then, broiler production has been dominated by southern states, including Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Maryland, where lower labor and feed costs were available. Born in the 19305, the broiler industry in this country gathered steam in the 19405. Today the nation’s broiler industry is a multibillion dollar business producing nearly 14 billion pounds of broiler meat per year, making the U.S. the leading broiler producer in the world. According to USDA figures, Americans will eat an average of 60 pounds of broilers in 1987, a big jump from the 32 pounds consumed in 1967. Over the past three decades, the poultry industry in New York State has specialized m egg production, with annual farm income ap proaching $lOO million. Spearheading the resumption of broiler production in New York State is Falls’ Kosher Foods, Inc., in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County. A subsidiary of Hebrew National Kosher Foods, Inc., Falls’ Poultry has already produced half a million broilers this year. “Chances are that the produc tion of more than two and a half million broilers per year by Falls’ Poultry alone will be established on a permanent basis,” Aho told the Cornell Poultry Conference. As for the larger non-kosher market which reaches one billion pounds in New York State, Aho said that although New York is not competitive at the moment, new technology in broiler production including “cage rearing” could make upstate New York com petitive in the future. Aho, along with Cornell poultry specialists Dan Cunningham and Kavous Keshavarz, and Jerry Skoda, a Cornell Cooperative Extension agent in Sullivan County, helped Falls’ Poultry study the feasibility of broiler production in New York state during 1983. “One unforeseen factor that has prompted the production of broiler chickens in New York was the outbreak of avian influenza,” Aho noted. A viral respiratory disease in poultry, avian influenza broke out last fall in parts of Pennsylvnaia and later in New Jersey and Virginia. More than 13 million chickens died of the disease or were destroyed in Pennsylvania alone in order to stop the epidemic. A quarantine stopped the flow of broilers from parts of Penn sylvania to the Falls’ processing plant in New York, thus en couraging serious consideration of broiler production in New York State, according to Aho. Aho said that farmers who now raise pullets, young female chickens, may be interested in broiler production. “Broiler production,” he pointed out, “will be appealing to pullet growers who have extra labor on the farm because broiler production provides a better return.” Aho summed up his presentation to the Cornell Poultry Conference this way: “It appears as though New York State will be a broiler producing state once again. ’ ’
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