University Smells Success In Experiment To Save Delmarva Poultry Industry

University of Maryland Eastern Shore officials are crowing about a recent experiment that drastically reduced the ammonia level in chicken houses. But the $1.7 million experiment is about more than reducing the stench of toxic fumes. It’s about saving the Delmarva poultry industry.

“If we on Delmarva don’t solve this problem, we won’t have an industry,” Jeannine Harter-Dennis, a UMES poultry scientist, said of chicken litter.

“We won’t be able to meet federal government standards, and the poultry industry will go elsewhere,”
Harter-Dennis said, referring to states like Arkansas, the number one poultry producer in the country, where labor costs are cheaper.

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