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Chesapeake Bay. “Reports like this one are simply attempts to distract from the real, tangible progress farmers have made in protecting water quality,” said spokesperson James Fisher. In the 2020 US Broiler Chicken Industry Sustainability Report, Stephanie Shoemaker (environmental manager at major broiler producer Sanderson Farms) said “a prominent goal of ours over the next five to ten years will be to identify new methods to renew, reuse, reduce and recycle waste from our wastewater treatment and processing facilities”.
Technology to come How much new technologies can further improve the sus- tainability of broiler farming in the US and beyond can only be surmised but hopefully they will provide significant gains.
Super believes that most of the technological advances that are coming, or will come, will be applied in processing plants. “At the plant, I think we are going to see more companies utilizing more technology, automation and AI, in areas like deboning, for example, to put less [burden] on workers and help alleviate staffing challenges in a continuous tight labour market.” In terms of where the most gain can be achieved in sustain- ability in US chicken production in the next five years, Super points without hesitation to feed. “Feed is the largest input and resource in raising a chicken,” he says. “So, the more we can further improve feed conversion; that is a big area that can make the most gain in US chicken production – producing more chicken with less resources.”
Nitrogen and phosphorus con- tamination from poultry opera- tions in the Chesapeake Bay area is a major concern in terms of runoff from manure.
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