Source: Chris Scott, MEATINGPLACE, 8/26/15


Poultry and poultry products from Ontario, Canada, are again welcome in the U.S. market after USDA this week rescinded a ban imposed after the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on a turkey farm.

The April 2015 ban covered live poultry, hatching eggs and even research birds in Canada. The apparent recovery in many North American markets from HPAI outbreaks that have killed more than 48 million chickens and turkeys at U.S. facilities alone prompted the lifting of the ban.

Meanwhile, Iowa State University has canceled poultry classes designed to teach about 500 students about raising chickens for meat, egg layers and turkeys in light of a possible return of HPAI this fall. The ISU Dept. of Animal Science wants to curtail traffic to one of its teaching farms thee miles away from its Ames, Iowa, campus to curb potential outbreaks of HPAI during the fall migration. The farm has chickens carrying some of the world’s oldest inbred genetic lines, some dating back to 1925, according to a report in The Des Moines Register.

ISU students instead will be taught about poultry nutrition, anatomy and physiology through video-based classes, the report noted.

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