Special Report \ Lancaster Farming I —v j —l a lKJ®® MAJOR CHANGES ARE PLANNED FOR UNDERGRADUATES STUDYING POULTRY SCIENCE AT PENN STATE William D. Weaver, Jr. Professor and Head Penn State Poultry Science Training undergraduate stu dents for the many careers offered by the poultry industry is one, if not the most impor tant, responsibility asked of the Penn State Department of Poul try Science. Traditionally, many of the students entering the industry from Pam State have received degree-’ in poultry technology and management, a curriculum administered solely by the Department of Poultry Science. Although the job opportuni ties for students trained in poul try science have been excellent (there have been two to three jobs available for each student graduated), attracting students into a purely poultry science curriculum has been difficult. 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Students interested in gradu ate and professional (veterinary medicine) schools will select the bioscience option. Current ly, there is a separate major administered by the three departments, called animal bioscience, for students inter ested in post-graduate education. Students planning to move directly into the industry are expected to choose the production/business option. Every effort is being made to select, and when necessary Agricultural INCINERATORS The next generation... from a leading maker of farm incinerators since 1962. • Long Life • Ease of Use • More Capacity • Fuel Efficiency Designed for poultry and other farm applications H Lancaster, PA September 28-29,1994 NOW OPEN Contract! m available npamLaauwQ.Mo. - mtlTTr BBraaM MIUMVEKtITVAVt BLjmT iTLrtT SpSt eiua STORE HOOKS: CJI-WTOMI 7;M AM. -4P.M, J£S£ST«mW StonSay-PlMa, “tSSir" Dr. William D. Weaver, Jr. develop, courses that will pre pare these students for employ ment in firms engaged in ani mal production and agribusi ness. In addition to the more traditional poultry production and management courses, courses in communications, business and personnel man agement, finance, accounting, economics, computer applica tions, and farm building struc tures and ventilation will be offered. Even though the curriculum will encompass several species of commercial farm animals, care is being taken to maintain adequate course content specif ic to poultry science. In the low er level courses where basic systems are generally taught, A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! ilement to Umcwtor Farming, Saturday, S*pt 24,1994—Pag* is instructors will provide, when appropriate, the comparisons between birds and mammals. Specific courses and por tions of courses addressing var ious topics specific to poultry will be maintained at the upper level (junior and senior years) to ensure that students receive proper training in poultry science. The consensus is that, in the long run, the new animal sci- National Meetin GEORGETOWN, Del.—Close to 600 poultry industry leaders from across the country and around the world are expected to attend the 1994 National Meeting on Poultry Health and Processing in Ocean City, Maryland on October 20-21. The meeting is sponsored by Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), the trade association work ing for the continued progress of the Delmarva Peninsula’s nearly $1.3-billion-a year poultry indus try. “Meeting Today’s Challenges” is the theme of this year’s meeting, according to Dr. Mark A. Dekich, meeting chairman. “Our industry has many opportunities in the area of food safety and there will be an emphasis on this important subject at the meeting,” DeKich said, “The newly proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules on inspection procedures and product quality make our meeting especially timely and pertinent to the poultry industry nationwide.” The opening general session is devoted to food safety topics including an overview by George B. Watts, president of the National Broiler Council. Dr. Charles W. Beard, vice president Research/Technology, Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association, will give an update on food-safety research. cnees curriculum and its two options, which is planned to start in the fall of 1996, will bet ter serve the poultry industry than ihe currently underen rollcd major in poultry technol ogy and management. The new program should expose a much larger number of students to poultry science than the present major, and therefore will pro vide the poultry industry with a larger pool from which to select potential employees. Poultry g Set Food technologist Dr. James Jay, emeritus professor, Wayne State University, will discuss food-safety microbiology for the meat industry, and Dr. Donald W. Luchsinger, acting deputy admin istrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA, will address his agency’s pre-harvest food-safety initiatives. An overview of the ratite industry, presented by Dr. Mac Terzich of Perdue Farms, Inc., will complete the general session. All poultry industry personnel will find the general session of interest and importance. Following the general session, there will be concurrent live pro duction and processing sessions. In the two-day live production sessions, topics are: • Field Dermatitis • Chicken Anemia Agent and Dermatitis • REV-Like Complex • Multicentric Histiocytosis Mimicking Reticuloendotheliosis • Reticuloendotheliosis: Known and Suspected Impacts on Poultry • The Relationship between Nutrition and Immunology • Disease Syndromes Associated with Arenavirus-Like Particles in Georgia Chickens • Role of Selenium in Nutrition and Health • Field Status of Infectious Bursal Disease Viruses • Mycoplasma Field Issues and Diagnostic • Mycoplasma Research • Mycoplasma Biose curity • Delmarva Avian In fluenza Risk Minimiza tion Effort • Incidence and Con trol of Marek’s Disease • Improvement of Marek’s Disease Vaccina tion Techniques • Procedures for Ap proval of New Biologies. The one-day pro- cessing session on Thursday, October 20 has topics designed to help processing plant managers and quality control personnel de liver higher quality products while improv ing their efficiencies. Speakers from 12 states and the District ol Columbia were selected by DPl’s Poultry Health Committee and Process ing Committee. For more information about the 29th National Meeting on Poultry Health and Processing, contact DPI at R.D. 6, Box 47, Georgetown, Delaware 19947-9622, (302) 856-9037.
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