U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Wednesday that there are "no anticipated changes" to the current federal policy requiring poultry to be culled in response to bird flu outbreaks ...
She laid out a five-point plan to address the situation. Dedicate up to $500 million to helping U.S. poultry producers implement “gold-standard” biosecurity measures. USDA has developed a ...
With the H5N1 bird flu virus likely here to stay, some poultry producers, disease experts and government officials are questioning the practice of widespread culling in response to outbreaks.
Farmers could plant it between food crops to improve soil and its seeds can be harvested and pressed for oil, while a byproduct of that processing can feed poultry and cattle. The oil, in turn ...
With concerns over avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, resurfacing across India, Telangana has ramped up efforts to safeguard its poultry industry. With cases emerging in neighbouring ...
(ABC 6 News) – A penniless poultry producer was cleared to start repaying some of its creditors last week, after an Iowa bankruptcy judge dismissed four businesses’ attempt to jump the line.
The United States has so far avoided vaccination as a strategy to eradicating bird flu in poultry, instead relying on culling infected flocks. With the escalating outbreak driving up egg prices to ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul must shut down NYC’s live poultry markets for good, activists urged this week after visiting four recently reopened spots. “Each one of these places was worse than the last ...
Though the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated that vaccination research is being funded, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack clarified that “widespread vaccination of commercial poultry is ...
The highly contagious disease has caused the loss of 159.3 million commercial poultry, wild birds, and backyard poultry in the U.S. since February 2022. And relief could be months away as farms ...
Amid rising concerns over Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in Telangana, the Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department has urged the public not to panic, assuring that properly-cooked chicken and eggs ...
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our mother, Eiko Kubota Toussaint who died on February 13, 2025 at the age of 98. She was born in Nagano-Ken, Japan on June 3, 1926.