Proposed Australia broiler farm traffic worries addressed

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  Andrea Gantz

  A proposed broiler farm in Australia will not cause major problems with increased truck traffic, an industry leader says.

  From WATTAgNet:
  Worries that a proposed broiler farm will cause problems with increased truck traffic in nearby neighborhoods are unwarranted, says the president of the Australian Chicken Growers Association (ACGA).
  At issue is a proposed broiler operation in the Wellington Shire Council, which borders Latrobe City. If fully realized, the farm would house 800,000 chickens and would produce more than 4 million chickens annually.
  While the proposed farm is about four times larger than the average poultry operation, ACGA President Mike Shaw said that the proposed operation would not generate any more traffic than the average dairy operation, and the broiler farm is planned to be built in an area that is a “known dairy production area.”
  Shaw also pointed to the economic benefits of the farm, because in addition to the jobs created at the farm itself, the increased poultry production in Australia as a result of the farm would add to jobs at processing plants, feed mills and other operations within the Australian poultry industry.
  ACGC was formed in the early 1980s and represents contract broiler meat growers and turkey producers on a range of industry issues at a national level, according to the organization’s website. ACGC is a participant of the Advisory Committee of the Chicken Meat Program of the Rural Industry Research and Development Corporation and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation, which represents all industry stakeholders at the national level.