In Ep. 93, Dr. Denise Heard ­– who directs the poultry association’s comprehensive research program – discusses how USPOULTRY determines which research projects submitted for review by hundreds of meat scientists each year and outlines some of the recent results from the research studies and how they may eventually affect the poultry industry on both the grower and processor levels. USPOULTRY annually distributes $1 million dollars in research funding and evaluates between 100 and 200 research proposals and Heard also describes for MeatingPod listeners some of the workshops and education programs scheduled for next month’s International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE), which USPOULTRY organizes with the American Feed Industry Association and the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).