A professional who inspects farms for compliance with contract and cooperative agreement standards and advises farmers regarding development programs to aid in producing quality poultry products. Respnsibilities include:

• Tours farms to inspect facilities and equipment for adequacy, sanitation and efficiency of operations.
• Examines chickens for evidence of disease and growth rate (according to weight and age) to determine effectiveness of medication and feeding programs.
• Recommends changes in facilities, equipment, and medication to improve production, based on knowledge of poultry farming, hatchery operations and processing.
• Informs farmers of new procedures and techniques, government regulations and company and association production standards to enable them to upgrade farms and meet requirements.
• Recommends laboratory testing of diseased chickens, feeds, and supplements or gathers samples and takes them to plant laboratory for analysis.
• Reports findings of farm conditions, laboratory tests, recommendations and farmers' reactions to keep superior apprised of farmers' efforts to furnish quality products.