The award is presented to a public servant of an agency or of an organization for outstanding achievement and service on behalf of the poultry industry. Recipients are honored for their contributions of time and services to the poultry industry and for participation in civic work and other community activities. He has also been active in examinations of commercial chickens, writing more than 600 pathology reports on broiler cases in 2005, of which 473 were from Delmarva poultry companies....

Cushing, 43, is a well-known pretty face, thanks mainly to the medium that has garnered fame for so many cooks, chefs and foodies in recent years: television. After being discovered by a producer in the late '90s while wielding a whisk at our city's annual Good Food Festival, she hosted three seasons of Dish it Out on the Life Network, four seasons of Christine Cushing Live on Food Network Canada, followed by one season of Cook with Me on the same channel. For eight years, she hosted three...

LINCOLN, NE As the ethanol industry expands in Nebraska, pork and poultry producers, and their allied industry representatives, may be wondering how to best take advantage of the ethanol co-product distillers grains in feed rations for their animals. This is important since the availability of distillers grains in Nebraska may triple in the next few years and information on feeding hogs and poultry distillers grains is sometimes confusing. To help de-clutter the knowledge base, discuss new...

A 5-year-old girl from Central Java province died last week following the deaths of around 20 chickens near her village home and authorities are investigating the case. Another death in Indonesia from bird flu and thousands more birds culled Another death in Indonesia from bird flu and thousands more birds culled. The latest case in Vietnam is the first since late 2005 and the victim, a 30-year-old man from Vinh Phuc province near the capital Hanoi, remains in a serious condition. Hans...

It comes as the Vietnamese government today (1 June) released a report on the status of the country's fight against avian influenza. Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the preventive health department under the Ministry of Health said the study encouraged optimism for the battle against the deadly avian influenza virus. But he warned that unlike antiviral treatments, the antibodies would be strain-specific and not cover other influenza viruses, possibly limiting their potential should the virus...