USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation have distributed $400,000 in research grants for five projects.
The projects approved by the Foundation Research Advisory Committee included:
- Development of a live, attenuated vaccine for reoviral arthritis and hepatitis in turkeys – University of Minnesota with an endowing foundation gift from West Liberty Foods
- Development of vaccines for the control of chicken spotty liver disease – Iowa State University
- Detection and control of processing-tolerant Campylobacter on broiler carcasses – University of Georgia with a foundation gift from Mar-Jac Poultry
- Developing a broad-spectrum bacterial vaccine to protect against chondronecrosis in broilers – University of Arkansas with a foundation gift from George’s, Inc.
- Assessing the physiological stressors due to injection of nitrogen during ventilation shutdown – North Carolina State University