As the annual Thanksgiving festivities gather steam, MeatingPod chats with Neal Walsh, chief operating officer at Butterball LLC, on differences this year with turkey supplies versus the avian influenza scourge that killed a record number of domestic U.S. birds last year. Walsh will outline the lessons learned in a previous bird flu outbreak in 2015 and how Butterball met customer demand during the 2022 holidays. He also describes how turkey industry players open up lines of communication to discuss biosecurity measures that have worked or the types of operational approaches that can benefit turkey producers and processors as conditions change.
