- 8/31/10
Hurricane Preparations
It has been several years since Delmarva has felt the full force of a hurricane. Hurricane Earl might be headed our way. Here are things that chicken growers should do to prepare for a...
- 8/23/10
Program announced for October 4 – 6, 2010 National Meeting on Poultry Health and Processing in Ocean City, Maryland
The 45th annual National Meeting on Poultry Health and Processing, considered the best meeting of its type, will be held October 4-6, 2010 in Ocean City, Maryland. Sponsored by Delmarva Poultry...
- 7/30/10
Statement by Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. regarding a petition circulated by Environment Maryland and Signed by Just 55 people
The petition was circulated by a group that has a long history of opposition to the local chicken industry and has little regard for the facts about the industry.
These few petition signers do...
- 7/26/10
USDA Proposes New Regulations Related to Chicken Growers’ Contacts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations that provide significant new federal government involvement in the relationship between chicken companies and contract chicken growers....
- 7/01/10
2010 DELMARVA CHICKEN FESTIVAL CONCLUDES
More than 25,000 persons helped recognize Delmarva's largest agricultural enterprise, the chicken industry, at the weekend Delmarva Chicken Festival on the campus of Delaware State University in...
- 7/01/10
2010 Delmarva Poultry Conference
The 2010 Delmarva Poultry Conference will be held Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland.
This year's conference features an...
- 5/03/10
Nationwide Insurance Joins with American Forests to Support Poultry Farm Tree Plantings
On Arbor Day 2010 at two chicken farms on the Delmarva Peninsula, Nationwide Insurance announced a new program to help with the planting of trees around chicken houses in Delaware, the Eastern Shore...
- 4/28/10
Scholarship Recipients Announced
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI) has announced the recipients in its 2010 College Scholarship Program. Four outstanding young people were chosen to receive grants totaling $6,000.
The...
- 4/27/10
Plan To Attend the Delmarva Chicken Festival – June 18 & 19
For the ninth time in its 61 year history, the Delmarva Chicken Festival will be held in Delaware's capital city of Dover. First held in 1948 in Georgetown, Delaware, the 61st festival will take...
- 4/19/10
A New Way to Look at Delmarva's Chicken Industry
Delmarva's chicken industry is a significant entity for the state of Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Normally we speak about hundreds of millions of...
- 4/15/10
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. Recognizes Achievements
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), the trade association for the Delmarva Peninsula's chicken industry, held its 54th annual Booster Banquet tonight in Salisbury, Maryland and recognized 15...
- 3/22/10
Maryland Farmers Doing a Great Job with Nutrient Management Compliance
The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has released the latest compliance figures for its Nutrient Management Program. Mandated by state law in 1998, the program requires Maryland farmers to...
- 1/01/10
Chicken Growers Urged to Contact Congress
Two developments in recent weeks stress the urgency for persons in Delmarva's chicken industry, especially farm families that grow chickens, to contact their federal legislators to let them know...
- 12/23/09
Educational Program for New Delmarva Chicken Growers
Are you thinking about getting into the chicken growing business? Are you interested to learn the “ins and outs” of poultry production? The University of Maryland Extension is offering a...
- 12/18/09
New Survey Shows Better Feelings About Agriculture
The 2010 Policy Choices Survey by the University of Baltimore Schaefer Center for Public Policy found that 94 percent of those surveyed said that it is at least “somewhat important” that the state...
- 11/30/09
DPI Creates Another Electric Buying Group
Thanks to lower energy prices and the success of DPI's previous electric buying groups that saved more than 200 members hundreds of thousands of dollars, our 4th Electric Buying Group is being...
- 10/13/09
New USDA Program Might Help Chicken Growers
The 2008 federal Farm Bill created several new disaster programs under the
title “Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance.” One of the new programs is the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)....
- 9/16/09
Presidental Executive Order Response
President Obama’s effort to have the central government assume more control over the lives of persons living in the Chesapeake Bay watershed began with a May 2009 executive order “to protect and...
- 8/25/09
DPI Awards College Scholarships
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), the non-profit trade association for the broiler chicken industry, whose members include farm families that grow chickens, four chicken companies, hundreds of...
- 6/20/09
Delmarva Chicken Festival Declared a Success
Queen Anne’s County, Maryland hosted the 60th Delmarva Chicken Festival this weekend and the first festival in this county attracted a record number of Friday visitors. Thunderstorms and the threats...
- 6/14/09
Farmers Make Progress in Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reductions
In a recent meeting with managers and chairmen from the Maryland Association of Soil
Conservation Districts, Governor O’Malley personally introduced an exciting, innovative,
and user-friendly web...
- 6/05/09
New National Broiler Chicken Data Announced
Chickens remain an important agricultural product and economic activity in Delmarva’s three states according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Based on the pounds of...
- 4/21/09
Every Day is Earth Day for Delmarva's Chicken Industry
The broiler chicken industry on the Delmarva Peninsula and throughout America is firmly committed to the protection of the environment – the air, land, and water. The industry spends millions of...
- 12/12/08
Delmarva Chicken Industry's Small Role in Water Pollution
A number of ill-informed persons and critics of the chicken industry often complain about the role of the Delmarva chicken industry in Chesapeake Bay water quality issues. The facts provide...
- 11/01/07
DPI Executive Director Remarks at Waterkeepers Alliance Poultry Summit
DPI Executive Director Bill Satterfield Prepared Remarks
November 1, 2007
Waterkeeper Alliance Poultry Summit
Salisbury, Maryland
Thanks for the invitation. We appreciate the...
- 5/10/07
DPI Members Can Save on Vision Care
DPI members can save 25% on many of their vision care products by participating through our program with Accurate Optical, Inc. and Halpern Eye Associates.At locations throughout the Delmarva...
How the Broiler Chicken Industry Works
Broiler chickens are young chickens raised for meat. The broiler chicken industry on the...
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