Alabama produces 20 million chickens per week. That is about four to five chickens per person in the state every week.

This is a very serious event. The mortality rates for this event can be very high with 30 to 70 percent of animals to die in a matter of days.

I always start by telling people this is not a silver bullet. It will not eliminate water pollution from farm runoff, but it's one more layer of technology to address the problem.

It will be difficult to finish this up and the choices are many.

We get a 90 to 95 percent kill ratio. That means the bacteria aren't around to munch on nutrients and give off gas, so a lot of the odor goes away.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.