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New building technologies help protect birds against disease
New technologies are helping poultry producers protect their flocks against high path avian flu.
Tony Wesner, with Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms says the innovations used in the company’s new cage-free houses helps them better control the environment. “Because the system is so well insulated and so well put together and so tight,” he says. “We’re able to maximize our air movement. Maximize our air efficiency. And eliminate outside exposure as much as we possibly can.”
He tells Brownfield the new design helps to keep diseases out – but ultimately it’s back to basics of biosecurity to prevent another outbreak of avian flu.
The avian flu outbreak in 2015 cost the US egg and poultry industry nearly $390-million.
AUDIO: Tony Wesner, Rose Acre Farms
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