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Feb 21

Charles Baum, 91, survivor and celebrated chicken farmer

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In the annals of Petaluma’s Jewish chicken farmers, Charles Baum was a superstar. The Polish-born Holocaust survivor made his way to Northern California after the war, started out small, and eventually built his business into one of Sonoma County’s largest poultry processors. A true American success story, Baum died of congestive heart failure on Jan. …

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Feb 16

Business Directory

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February will be a busy month in the Extension Office in DeKalb County. I will be offering two livestock-geared series: one on Tuesday evenings and one on Thursday evenings. The first series, “Friendly Forages,” will be on Tuesday evenings in February from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Red Conference Room in the County Office Building basement, …

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Feb 08

Ukraine customers get insight into US broiler industry

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The visitors, led by the producer’s deputy chief executive Maxym Pysaryev, were welcomed by Stan Reid, Cobb vice president of sales and marketing, and then heard about the performance of Cobb products and the progress being made with the latest developments in breeding. There was a detailed discussion of catching and transport of broilers from …

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Jan 29

Having the Right Key to Unlock Your Potential?

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News 10 January 2012 US – What is the point of having a Ferrari but the wrong key to use it, or worse, not being able to afford the right type of fuel to get the performance that you would like?, asks Danisco. This is the situation that the poultry industry appears to be finding …

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Jan 26

There's more to buying chicken than reading the package label

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Most people want to eat healthier and make the best choices at the grocery store. And infinitely versatile chicken, low in fat, high in protein, is often on the shopping list these days. but sometimes making those choices isn’t as easy as it should be. even labels that seem self-explanatory are not. When it comes …

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Jan 25

Chicken Fingers with a Side of Penicillin? 

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Let’s face it; feeding our children isn’t always easy. I was lucky with my first child, my daughter, who will try just about anything. so when she was younger it was easy for me to feed her a diet high in fruits and vegetables and while limiting the amount of meat she ate. my son, …

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Jan 20

Council’s Keller critical of keeping ‘clucking chickens’

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Three Delaware City Council members on Jan. 9 criticized the idea of letting city residents keep chickens in their yards. In November, councilman Andrew Brush asked city planning director David Efland to investigate regulations related to the keeping of chickens within city limits. Efland presented his initial findings to the Delaware Planning Commission on Jan. …

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Jan 19

Pet chickens are all they’re cracked up to be

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Few things are sure in this world, and Laura Foye knows one of them: chickens poop. Foye is a “hobby farmer” who cleans up after 30 of the birds at her home in Falcon she. On Saturday she brought seven of her flock to the Pikes Peak Library East on Union Boulevard to show 60 …

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Jan 18

Aviagen puts winter ventilation top of the agenda

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Aviagen is devoted to providing on-the-ground technical support for the poultry industry around the world and to supporting their customers’ customers. as part of this initiative, Aviagen invited external consultants Bernard Green and Barrie Fleming alongside Aviagen’s Regional Technical Manager, Neil Clark and Vlada Zima, Aviagen’s Sales and Technical Manager for the Czech Republic, to …

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Jan 17

Organization takes aim at obesity

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Floyd — The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth is taking a community approach in tackling a serious health issue. Established by the Virginia General Assembly, the Foundation has as its mission to reduce and prevent tobacco use and childhood obesity, explained agency spokesperson, Richard Foster. “those are the two leading causes of preventable death in …

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