The Feather Board Command Centre has been notified by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, that ILT has been diagnosed in a layer chicken from a very small flock in West Nipissing municipality.» Read more...
As the new poultry industry development specialist at Manitoba Agriculture, Amy Johnston came to her position with both strong first-hand livestock experience and an in-depth knowledge of production through the eyes of a nutritionist. Johnston grew up in the Interlake region of Manitoba, in a rural agricultural community where her family owned and raised horses.» Read more
The poultry industry is harnessing the skills of University of Guelph computer scientists and their artificial intelligence expertise to get a better idea of when and where avian influenza might next emerge. Professor Rozita Dara and her computational sciences PhD student Samira Yousefi are mining social media for clues that could help establish correlation between what is talked about by Twitter users and what is reported through actual surveillance and diagnostic activities.» Read more