 It's no secret that poultry farming is big business in Alabama, with more than 10,000 houses in operation, more than 20 million birds are being produced each week. So how do farmers stay on top of their game in this $15 billion industry? Join us as we discover Alabama Extension and a high-tech approach to keeping commercial flocks thriving. The National Poultry Technology Center at Auburn University is the only facility in the country dedicated to the continuous education and training of the poultry industry. The National Poultry Technology Center is a place like no other. Since opening its doors in 2017, the center has hosted more than 56 formal hands-on demonstration seminars for more than 3,400 attendees. So the farmers really like our center because we work really hard to take complex management decisions or learning topics and make them simple to learn and make them actionable for their farms. While the poultry industry in our state is thriving, it's not without its challenges. The NPTC partners with universities and research organizations worldwide to identify feasible solutions for complex problems facing the growers. They're not above our growers' heads. They talk with common sense and it's able to help our producers. But we can bring producers here to this facility and they spend about five to six hours here and they can learn more here in that one day than I could in 10 different grower meetings out there. What makes the NPTC special is we're customer service driven. To the Alabama poultry farmer and the poultry companies in Alabama, they're our customers. Almost everything we do is hands-on so anybody can come in no matter what language you speak or what technical level of competence you are on a piece of equipment. You can come, you can practice and you can learn something new and take it out in the field tomorrow and use it. Get connected to the latest commercial poultry research by visiting aces.edu.