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

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

June 18, 2026 · 40 min · Season 3 · Episode 47

About this episode

Curtis Novak discusses strategies for layer farms to manage feed costs without compromising egg production and quality.

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...

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