WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolled out the US Department of Agriculture’s $1 billion plan to lessen the ...
The USDA plans to invest $500 million in what it calls “gold-standard biosecurity measures.” The agency will be expanding the Wildlife Biosecurity Assessments designed to safeguard farms from wild ...
Multiple moving parts have caused a shortage of eggs, starting with avian influenza and demand, David Murray writes.
With egg prices soaring, the US is considering vaccinating laying chickens, which have been hit particularly hard by the ...
Poultry farmers have been working since the outbreak of 2015 to protect their flocks by culling birds in affected areas and ...
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig applauded the USDA’s updated response to bird flu, emphasizing that poultry producers ...
Dr. Carlson said with only conditional approval, there are still many steps to accomplish, and that could take a year or two ...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Could a bird flu vaccine help lower the price of eggs? According to The National Chicken Council, ...
Soaring egg prices have consumers boiling, and on Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture blamed rising costs ...
Poultry producers, disease experts and government officials are now questioning the practice of widespread culling in ...
About half of the newborn birds are female — with hens beginning to lay their own eggs at the age of six months.