The Poultry Leadership Podcast

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Animal Welfare Audits: Ryan Bennett, American Humane Certified

2026-09-1738:34

Send us Fan Mail UPDATE: Ryan Bennett was last on this show in July 2024 as Executive Director of the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry and Eggs and the International Poultry Welfare Alliance. He is now Vice President of the Farm Program at the American Humane Society. Animal welfare audits are no longer a niche concern for specialty producers. Roughly 90% of the cage-free eggs sold in the United States carry the American Humane Certified label, and a new set of pullet standards took e...

What Not to Cut When Egg Prices Are Killing Your Margins: Curtis Novak, Alltech

2026-06-1839:57

Send us Fan Mail Egg prices can fall faster than your feed bill, and that’s when “normal” nutrition habits start burning cash. We sit down with Curtis Novak, PhD, Director of Poultry at Alltech, to get practical about what layer farms can do right now to reduce feed cost per ton without accidentally crashing egg production, shell quality, or livability. Curtis brings both bench science and field experience, and he doesn’t dodge the uncomfortable reality that some operations are forced to cons...

Feeding the World with Eggs: How the International Egg Foundation Builds Sustainable Farms

2026-04-1440:52

Send us Fan Mail The International Egg Foundation is building an infrastructure of hope across nutritionally disadvantaged regions — and the humble egg is at the center of it. When a teacher reported her students were getting loud, wild, and "naughty" after a school started serving eggs, that complaint was actually proof something was finally working. Children who'd been running on empty now had enough protein to act like kids again. In this episode, Brandon Mulnix sits down with Cassy Price,...

AI for Poultry Leaders: Using ChatGPT and Tech to Scale

2026-03-2519:58

Send us Fan Mail Most leaders in the agricultural industry know AI is coming. Far fewer have actually figured out how to use it in a way that makes their day-to-day leadership better — not someday, but this week. In this solo episode, Brandon Mulnix shares what happened when he stopped treating AI like a search engine and started using it as a thinking partner. Over the last quarter, he used AI to prepare for a difficult performance conversation, build documents he had no formal training to w...

American Egg Board CEO: AI & Policy with Emily Metz

2026-03-1133:24

Send us Fan Mail Prices spike, headlines swirl, and a humble staple turns into a cultural flashpoint. We sat down with Emily Metz, CEO of the American Egg Board, to unpack how the egg industry is rebuilding trust, boosting demand, and standing up new tools to keep farmers and consumers on the same side of the table. From a 50-year mandate to market eggs and fund research, to hands-on support for producers facing biosecurity and ransomware threats, Emily opens the playbook on what it takes to ...

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