Richard Lobb
Richard Lobb
commercial cover gratified industry percent producers program signed
This is the first program to cover the commercial industry as comprehensively as we are doing. We are gratified that 90 percent of the producers have signed up for the program, and more will come in as we go along.
annual birds contain eradicate million number small total
First of all, we don't have it in the U.S. and we're doing everything to keep it out, ... If we have an outbreak, we could contain it. If we had to kill 5 million birds to eradicate it, that's still a very small number of our total annual production.
consumers
There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.
concerned direction industry trend wrong
The trend is going in the wrong direction. The industry is concerned about this as well. These are our plants, this is our problem, and this is our challenge.
mystery seek support timing
The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either.
best health
The health of the flock, ... is probably the best that it's ever been.