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Volume 19, Issue 1 - September 2024

• New term to learn - Panzootic
• Controlling HPAI
• Competition for US sale of chicken paws
• Effect of HPAI on world poultry production - Britian
• Kentucky 4-H poultry updates - Cooking contests
• Kentucky 4-H poultry state fair updates
• AAAP statement on HPAI

Volume 15 - only issue - November 2023

• New Kentucky State Veterinarian
• Be prepared - Composting HPAI mortality
• Avoiding fires in poultry litter dry stack sheds
• HPAI reappears in Canadian flocks
• HPAI vaccinations may be used in Europe
• To vaccinate for HPAI or not
• Kentucky 4-Hers compete in national events
• Dietary definitions

Volume 14, Issue 2 - September 2022

• 4-H poultry-related cooking contests this summer
• 4-H poultry-related contests at the state fair
• Avian influenza update

Volume 14, Issue 1 - July 2022

• New survey report - Live chicken production trends
• Updated report available - Importance of agriculture in KY
• USDA Service Centers provide free, one-on-one help for farmers
• New KDA Deputy State Veterinarian
• Kentucky mental health crisis hotline - 988
• 2022 Applications for family farm environmental excellence award due August 31

Volume 13, Issue 3 - December 2021

• KPF condolences for those affected by the storms
• 2021 KPF scholarship winners
• 2021 KPF environmental award winners
• Solar energy can benefit your poultry operation
• 2021 Kentucky poultry hall of fame inductee - Marc Ashby
• 2021 KPF friend of poultry - Ryan Quarles
• 2021 National 4-H poultry and egg conference results
• Farbest farms chose to raise and present turkey to President Biden
• 2021 National 4-H poultry and egg conference held

Volume 13, Issue 2 - September 2021

• 4-Hers return to poultry-related competition
• High School students compete in an egg cook-off at the state fair
• Re-emergence of bed bugs as a poultry pest

Volume 13, Issue 1 - May 2021

• KPF Scholarship
• Applications for family farm environmental excellence award
• KPF Membership
• State 4-H poultry-related contests
• Managing litter moisture
• Estimating COVID-19 impacts on the broiler industry

Volume 12, Issue 4 - November 2020

• Farming and mental health resources
• 2020 4-H egg preparation demonstration goes virtual
• 2020 KPF scholarship winners
• 2020 KPF Environmental award winners
• Joey long inducted into the KPF Hall of Fame
• Lynde Hughes inducted into the KPF Hall of Fame
• Issues with poultry house LED lamps and light dimmers
• Poultry industry creates jobs in Kentucky

Volume 12, Issue 3 - June 2020

• COVID-19 and the American Poultry Industry
• KPF 2020 membership drive
• On the lighter side
• Women speaking out for agriculture
• Getting food from farms to food banks
• CDC guidelines for meat processing employees
• KPF scholarships

Volume 12, Issue 2 - March 2020

• African Swine Fever and the poultry industry
• Plant-based chicken?
• Chicken marketing summit 2020
• Sidewall insulation materials
• Kentucky Poultry Federation Membership drive

Volume 12, Issue 1 - January 2020

• 2019 KPF Scholarship winners
• 2019 Farm environmental excellence award winners
• 2019 KY Poultry Hall of Fame Inductee - Dr. Robert Williams
• Commissioner Ryan Quarles opens KY poultry festival
• 2019 Kentucky Poultry Federation membership drive

Volume 11, Issue 3 - December 2018

• 4-H poultry activities at the KY state fair
• Economic impact of applying broiler litter in the fall
• Dan Flanagan named KPF president
• Slow versus fast-growing chickens
• New Kentucky poultry curriculum available

Volume 11, Issue 2 - August 2018

• State 4-H poultry-related cooking contests
• Impact of free-range poultry
• 2018 Kentucky Poultry Festival

Volume 11, Issue 1 - February 2018

• Kentucky farm wins a national environmental award
• 2018 scholarship applications
• Fan maintenance
• Latest national poultry statistics
• Cleaning evaporative cooling pads
• First human case of H7N4 bird flu confirmed in China
• 2018 KPF membership drive

Volume 10, Issue 3 - December 2017

• 2017 Kentucky Environmental Awards
• 2017 Scholarship Winners
• 2017 Friend of Kentucky Poultry Industry
• Doug Overhults inducted into Hall of Fame
• Mandatory ammonia reporting delayed

Volume 10, Issue 2 - September 2017

• Annual Kentucky Poultry Festival - October 7
• Preparing to transfer your farm to the next generation: Estimate living expenses
• Results of state 4-H poultry-related cooking contests
• State 4-H Poultry Judging contest results
• State 4-H Avian bowl contest results
• Generator maintenance

Volume 10, Issue 1 - April 2017

• 2017 KPF Membership directories
• 2017 KPF Scholarship deadlines
• Summer is coming: Are your evaporative cooling pads ready?
• New UK Nutrient Management Planner
• Bird flu - Information for farmers

Volume 9, Issue 4 - November 2016

• 2016 KPF Scholarship winners
• Why is a nutrient management plan important?
• KPF Golf tournament at the poultry festival
• Warren Beeler awarded 2016 'Friend of poultry'
• Dan Flanagan inducted into the 2016 KPF Hall of Fame
• 2016 KPF environmental award winners

Volume 9, Issue 3 - September 2016

• Do you have an ag water quality plan?
• 4-H poultry barbecue contest winners
• New biosecurity principles management plan

Volume 9, Issue 2 - May 2016

• New biosystems engineers joining UK
• The Veterinary Feed Directive - Changing the way producers obtain medicated feeds
• Scholarships available for students
• Storm preparedness

Volume 9, Issue 1 - March 2016

• January began KPF membership drive
• Kentucky poultry producers win national environmental excellence award
• Determining the economic value of poultry litter
• Kentucky cattlemen's association 2016 convention and ag industry trade show
• Chicken word find
• US Poultry and Egg Associations new video

Volume 8, Issue 3 - November 2015

• 2015 KPF Scholarship winners
• 2015 National 4-H poultry-related contests
• 2015 KPF Grower environmental award winners
• Dr. Robert Stout named 'Friend of Kentucky Poultry'
• Dr. Austin Cantor into the Kentucky Poultry Hall of Fame
• Tools to help with ... Setting the minimal ventilation timer

Volume 8, Issue 2 - August 2015

• Economic impact of the American poultry industry
• Economic impact of the Kentucky poultry industry
• From the ashes, a new state-of-the-art feed mill raises at UK farm
• Trends in fuel prices
• Breeder house lighting decisions
• Avian Influenza update
• Silent auction fund-raiser for KPF scholarships

Volume 8, Issue 1 - April 2015

• KPF news updates
• Pilgrim's Pride growers hit by vandals
• McDonald's to phase out the use of chicken raised with antibiotics important to human medicine
• What's new with bird flu?
• Propane under $1 per gallon
• 2015 Agriculture industry breakfast

Volume 7, Issue 3 - November 2014

• 2014 KPF Scholarship Winners
• 2014 State 4-H Barbecue Contest Winners
• 2014 KPF Environmental Excellence Award Winners
• Drinker Lines and Fuel Costs
• Feeding America Program with Caldwell County FFA
• New Ag App

Volume 7, Issue 2 - August 2014

• Upcoming Kentucky Poultry Federation Poultry Festival
• Dr. Pescatore wins the W.D. Whiteker Award
• KY Ag Water Quality Plan
• New poultry inspection rules
• Continued improvement in broiler performance traits expected to continue
• US Poultry industry to track sustainability, tell the story

Volume 7, Issue 1 - February 2014

• NCC launches a new website
• On-farm energy assistance
• 2013 Kentucky Proud incredible food show
• 2014 Agriculture industry breakfast

Volume 6, Issue 3 - October 2013

• 2013 KPF Poultry Festival
• 2013 KPF Scholarship Recipients
• There's an app for that
• 2013 Environmental Award Winners
• State 4-H Chicken and Turkey Barbecue Contests

Volume 6, Issue 2 - July 2013

• 2013 KPF membership drive
• Third annual Todd County Eggstravaganza
• Yeas and Nays of Evaporative Cooling
• KPF partnering with FFA
• KPF scholarships available
• In the news
• State 4-H Egg Preparation Demonstration Contest Results

Volume 6, Issue 1 - February 2013

• 2013 KPF Membership Drive
• Kentucky Cattlemen's Association 2013 Convention and Ag Industry Trade Show
• No mystery to dry litter
• Poultry is a major contributor to the Kentucky economy
• New energy efficiency cost-share available for 2013

Volume 5, Issue 3 - September 2012

• 14th Annual Kentucky Poultry Festival - October 6, 2012
• 108th Kentucky State Fair
• 4-Hers excel in poultry contests at the state fair
• EPA-RFS update
• Making ethanol from corn: Effect on the poultry industry
• 2012 corn crop, drought, and mycotoxins
• KPF participation at the UK Ag Roundup
• Last call - Energy efficiency cost-share funds

Volume 5, Issue 2 - June 2012

• Adding more fans? Check your electrical supply
• Department of Labor drops youth labor rule
• Lower energy prices

Volume 5, Issue 1 - March 2012

• Cost-share for energy efficiency improvements
• Changes in the final GIPSA marketing rules
• Building resilient communities
• Kentucky Ag Water Quality Act information
• Congressman Guthrie advocates for family farms

Volume 4, Issue 3 - November 2011

• Poultry Kentucky's top-grossing ag product for the second year in a row
• Lighting: Getting the most out of CFLs
• KPF teams up with Kentucky Association of Food Banks
• Roger Thomas honored at poultry festival
• Scholarships awarded at poultry festival
• Joan and Martin Hayden receive the Kentucky family farm environmental award during the annual Hall of Fame banquet
• Maryland broiler grower under attack
• Are your attic inlets closing?
• Adjusting variable input heats
• Three new free-trade agreements signed

Volume 4, Issue 2 - August 2011

• Getting the most from your cooling system
• Comparing four types of incinerators
• Farm life is healthy for kids

Volume 4, Issue 1 - April 2011

• How much electricity are you using?
• Lighting alternatives
• Lighting up the poultry barn
• Fan maintenance, another energy saver
• Issacs joins KPF as Executive Director
• Energy improvement grants

Volume 3, Issue 4 - December 2010

• Grower workshops held December 1-3
• Family farm environmental excellence award winners
• Software from ventilation workshop available
• Scholarships awarded at Poultry Festival
• Avoid obstructions when installing attic inlets
• Terry Ashby inducted into the Kentucky Poultry Hall of Fame
• Adding tunnel fans may increase static pressure
• Feed costs and meat production
• End of the Poultry Energy Project - What's next?
• KPF membership drive

Volume 3, Issue 3 - September 2010

• State 4-H Egg Cookery Event
• Upcoming event - 12th Annual Kentucky Poultry Festival
• For the record
• Before an undercover activist strikes: Be smart ... and do the right thing
• 4-Hers do well at the state fair
• Websites of interest
• 106th Kentucky State Fair
• Corn: Aflatoxins and harvest
• Kentucky well education website

Volume 3, Issue 2 - June 2010

• NCC releases revised program on animal welfare
• New watchdog website monitors HSUS
• Discovery channel features Perdue's environmental initiatives
• Commercial fertilizer values for 2010
• Broiler litter production in Kentucky and potential use as a nutrient source

Volume 3, Issue 1 - April 2010

• 2010 Grower education conferences
• Farm succession - Transitioning your farm to the next generation
• UK senior named Gates Cambridge Scholar
• Role of poultry & egg production in the economy of the United States
• 2010 KPF membership directories
• Kentucky Farm Business Management Program

Volume 2, Issue 4 - December 2009

• 2009 Kentucky Family Farm Environmental Excellence Awards
• 2010 KPF Membership drive
• Kentucky 4-H'ers compete at the 2009 National 4-H Poultry and Egg Conference
• 2009 Kentucky Poultry Federation scholarship recipients
• Scholarship recipients: Essays submitted with their applications
• Poultry's carbon footprint
• Energy efficiency cost-share funds

Volume 2, Issue 3 - September 2009

• 11th Annual Kentucky Poultry Festival
• Perdue poultry producers host an educational program
• Contract farming making an impact and helping small farm families stay on the farm!
• 105th Kentucky State Fair
• Kentucky 4-H Poultry competitions

Volume 2, Issue 2 - May 2009

• Project website now online
• Two Brazilian Ag Engineers join the PHES team
• Avian Influenza found on Western Kentucky Poultry Farm
• Bird flu - Identification and Reporting
• News reports of Swine flu hitting North America - Is that anything like the bird flu?
• Avian Influenza - Biosecurity and Prevention
• Trivia question: Are chicken wings white or dark meat?

Volume 2, Issue 1 - February 2009

• 2009 Producer Educational Conference
• 2009 Kentucky Poultry Federation Membership drive
• The ability to seal summer ventilation is important during cold weather
• EPA's ruling on air emissions from animal facilities
• Update on California's Proposition 2: What is the debate about? Should the KY poultry industry be concerned?
• Misconceptions about the U.S. chicken meat industry

Volume 1, Issue 4 - November 2008

• 2008 Kentucky Poultry Federation scholarship recipients understand the importance of poultry and agriculture to Kentucky
• Winter poultry house maintenance
• Sand as an alternative litter material
• Trees good for odor and emissions control as well as energy conservation
• How much attic insulation?
• 2009 Kentucky Family Farm Environmental Excellence Awards

Volume 1, Issue 3 - August 2008

• Poultry House Evaluation Service (PHES) progress
• Jacquie Jacob joins the Energy Efficiency Project
• The Fan Assessment Numeration System (FANS)
• On-farm ventilation fan performance evaluations and implications
• Bird flu - Information for hunters and taxidermists
• Federal funding opportunities
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) from broiler houses: A non-issue?

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March 2008

• Poultry House Evaluation Service Progress
• Perdue Growers Host Georgia Experts
• Cold Cathode Lighting for Broiler Houses
• Presenting a Positive Image
• Update on Ammonia Emissions Reporting Requirements

Volume 1, Issue 1 - December 2007

• Poultry House Evaluation Service
• Hidden Hills Poultry Hosts Educational Seminar
• Fuel Saving Tips
• What's in your attic?
• USDA Energy Project Funding