In this opportunity, Dr. Jesse Campbell, Professor at Auburn University and member of the National Poultry Technology Center, shared his experiences in training personnel for the poultry industry since this is a very critical aspect of any production sector but especially in agriculture and integrated poultry industry where is necessary to deal with different groups that may have slightly different interests but all work together to provide the best protein product that we can offer to the public to feed them such as poultry meat.
What type of training programs do you offer to the poultry service technicians?
Sometimes I look at training a little differently than the traditional methods. For example, we typically try to train our poultry growers and our poultry technicians on the farm with birds.
Typically, what we try to do is we find it best to do these types of training in seminars in the field, in operating poultry houses at their poultry company or the poultry growers’ actual facilities that is a big challenge these days, especially with birds.
All this to be able to see the actual equipment, how to measure the performance of that equipment and how to adjust without birds in the farm too. So, they are comfortable without damaging the birds and without exposing them to anything.
We host international programs, but we will also do that for company-specific training so that companies do not have to worry about competing company representatives or anything like that. So, we typically do it. However, if anybody wants it, we find the
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