2020 GEORGIA LAYER CONFERENCE-VIRTUAL

Monday, September 21, 2020

2020 GEORGIA LAYER CONFERENCE-VIRTUAL

Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia

September 21, 2020 (Monday, EDT)

Program Moderators: Lilong Chai & Claudia Dunkley, UGA Poultry Science

9:00 am Welcome and Poultry Federation update

Mike Giles, President, Georgia Poultry Federation

9:15 am Welcome and UGA Poultry Science update

Todd Applegate, Professor and Department Head, UGA Poultry Science

9:35 am UGA Poultry Extension Update

Casey Ritz, Professor and Extension Coordinator, UGA Poultry Science

9:50 am US Egg Production Updates and Impacts of COVID-19

Oscar Garrison, Senior VP of Food Safety Regulatory Affairs, UEP

10:35 am Managing Flocks for Egg Safety and Quality

Deana Jones, Research Food Technologist, USDA ARS

11:20 am Poultry Disease Update

Karen Burns Grogan, Clinical Associate Professor, UGA PDRC

12:00 pm Egg Shell Quality Management

Dima White, Ph.D. Candidate, UGA Poultry Science

12:30 pm Engineering Solutions for Preventing Transmission of AI Among Egg Farms

Yang Zhao, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee

1:00 pm Application of Robots for Flock Management

Colin Usher, Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute

The ConferenceThe ConferenceThe conference will be held at virtual.

The University of Georgia and Ft. Valley State College, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Counties of the State cooperating.

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Cooperative Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

The University Of Georgia College Of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Athens, GA 30602-4356

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