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to spend money on this booth. So far, it has
been.”
Like Aviagen. Gillsville-based Morris
Hatchery's booth was a place to meet with
existing customers.
Morris Hatchery exports broiler hatching
eggs all over the world, with markets in
Canada, Russia. Ukraine and Dubai,
among others, said Rickey Smith, vice
president.
T his is normally a really good show for
us because of the international travel,”
Smith said. “We have new clients and also
we see a lot of our international customers.”
And international it was. The trade show
provided translators for visitors from coun¬
tries including Turkey. Mexico and China.
Mike Atherton, managing director of
Technical Services and Supplies, came all
the way from England.
His family business manufactures egg
quality testing devices used by govern¬
ments, universities and poultry companies.
The equipment checks lor cracks in eggs
and tests egg freshness and yolk color.
“When you break an egg and it covers
the bottom of a pan. that’s a stale egg,”
Atherton said. “When the egg sits very
small, very proud and very high (once
cracked], that’s a fresh egg.
“Yolk color’s primarily influenced by the
color of the feed additive and naturally, the
color of the grass. If the laying bird eats a
lot of grass, you expect a golden yolk. If it
was poor on grass, yov^’d expect a very
light yolk ”
ABVista also had representatives from the
United Kingdom.
“We're launching a product called
Quantum Blue, which is one of the biggest
news [stories] of the event,” said Richard
Cooper, managing director. “It’s a new
enzyme product which ... helps the chicken
digest phosphorus better so the chicken gets
more phosphorus out of the feed, and it also
makes sure there’s less waste phosphorus.
This product also helps the chicken con¬
vert its feed more efficiently so it basically
grow s faster on a little less feed, which obvi¬
ously saves the producer a lot of money.”
The display for ATltech. an international
company that develops feed supplements,
centered on a miniature agricultural display
ol windmill turbines, algae facilities to cre¬
ate ethanol and more efficient livestock
production.
“We have been in the poultry side for
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Visitors to the Alltech Inc. booth check out a model of what agriculture
might look like in the future Tuesday during the annual International
Poultry Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
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over 30 years now," said Swamy Haladi.
global technical manager for Alltech. "If
you look globally, it's the only industry that
products are consumed all over.
"There are some countries don't that don’t eat j
beef, some countries eat pork, but the
chicken is something everybody con¬
sumes."
That’s arguably ^ basis for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s proposed
modernization of food safety inspection for
poultry processing.
The proposal would focus inspection on
the areas of poultry production that pose
the greatest risk to food safety, such as
pathogen sampling and sanitary work con¬
ditions, instead of aesthetic criteria such as
blemishes on a carcass, according to a new s
release.
Haladi said both the food safety and
product traceability criteria of the proposal
are important for agriculture.
“At the end of the day , we are not dealing
with the animal industry, we’re dealing
with the food industry," he said. "We
should be very’ conscious about that.”
Inspectors will continue a carcass-by¬
carcass inspection, as mandated bv law, but
the modernization process w ill make it
more efficient.
It’s expected to lower production costs at
least $256.6 million a year, according to the
news release.
If the proposal does go through, Jaee
Jordan, regional sales executive for World
Technology Ingredients Inc., anticipates an
increase in production for the company’s
Jefferson facility.
“We are food safety, and really what
the USDA wants to do is ensure the food
we provide the American public is the
absolute safest," he said. “If you've ever
hand an all-natural product, you’ve likely
had our ingredient protecting it.
“We’re one of the very few all-natural,
USDA-approved antimicrobials and
we’re manufactured right here in
Georgia.”
The company creates antimicrobial
ingredients to protect meat, poultry, fish,
vegetables and a host of other products.
Jordan’s booth was next to that of its
sister company, Wolf-tec Inc.
“This is primarily their show’, but we
have a small booth because we think pro¬
moting food safety along w ith the equip¬
ment that processes the food ingredients are
really synergistically combined,” he said.
“They're constantly developing. Whether
or not the newest [USDAj submittal takes
the legs they want it to, we’re going to have
to see.”
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Chuck Ingraham, construction manager, tells volunteers how to begin
the building process for the Lingo Family's Habitat for Humanity home.
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save hundreds of dollars each year on
their power bills,” he said.
The family was joined by more than
50 volunteers Saturday as they began
work on the new home, which will he
two stories and about 1,300 square
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“This is the day that the Lord had
made and 1 will rejoice and be glad in
it,” said Lingo during the first nail cer¬
emony. “We’re so thankful to our
heavenly father and all the volunteers.
What a journey this is going be.”
Mary Lamond, Forsyth County
director of Habitat, said Lingo and her
children had “overcome a lot of heart¬
ache and obstacles in life.”
“It’s not often that you meet some¬
one and from the first moment know
they’re something very special,”
Lamond said of Lingo. “She’s a very
courageous and strong woman.”
Lingo, who works two jobs as a
school bus driver and office assistant,
said-she never imagined she would
someday own a home with solar
power.
“It should be a huge money-saver
for us,” she said.
Lamond called the building of the
solar-powered home “an historic
event.”
“This is a firsl for Habitat in
Georgia and our first time partnering
with Siemens,” she said.
It’s also historic for the Lingo fami
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a friend.
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'We're so thankful to our
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“That house is in need of a lot of
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The new Lingo home is one of 15
Habitat's North-Central Georgia chap¬
ter is planning this year.
Russ Hayes, CF.O of the division,
said some 222 homes have been built
m Forsyth, north Fulton, Cherokee and
Dawson counties since the organiza¬
tion was founded in 1995.
All Habitat home recipients pay for
their houses through low-interest
mortgages.
They also must complete at least
300 hours of “sweat equity” by work¬
ing on their homes and homes for
other Habitat recipients.
The Lingo home is scheduled to be
finished in April.
On the Net
For more information on volun¬
teering with Habitat for Humanity
- North Central Georgia, go
online at www.habitat-ncg.org.