As flu season for humans ramps up into winter, so does the bird flu. It is estimated that the bird flu has cost our producers over $3 million this year as a result of having to cull entire flocks. The lost income and the extreme stress of losing every bird to this disease has very long lasti…
Much of the Midwest continues to battle a record-setting outbreak of high pathogenic avian influenza.
Turkeys are selling for record high prices ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday as a resurgence of bird flu wipes out supplies across the US.
AMES, Iowa — Watching videos may boost hens’ welfare and health, according to researchers at Iowa State University.
The avian flu grabbed the attention of poultry farmers across the Midwest over the spring, and while reports of the disease have slowed, it’s not time to relax. Ben Slinger, a turkey farmer near Ellsworth, Iowa, said it’s too early to put thoughts of the outbreak behind him, simply because i…
For Brad Moline and his fellow turkey producers, having a state-of-the-art turkey facility at Iowa State University is a welcome boost to the industry.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza continues to make its way through Iowa’s poultry industry, and while this is the second outbreak since 2015, there are differences between the two.
This story was updated Monday, March 7, to reflect more confirmed cases.
Poultry production in the Corn Belt is still a relatively minor industry compared to beef and pork, but it is at least holding its own, and may even be on the move.
Twice in the last six years, the egg industry has been forced to deal with circumstances beyond its control.
Like the rest of agriculture, the poultry industry endured a volatile year in 2020 as COVID-19 spread across the country.
NEWELL, Iowa — Five years ago, a deadly virus devastated Dale Christiansen’s turkey farm in rural Buena Vista County.
CENTRALIA, Mo. — For Boone County farmer Dustin Stanton, what started as a desire to keep the class pet grew into a thriving egg business, and an on-farm visit from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Three years have gone by since the Iowa poultry industry was decimated by an outbreak of avian influenza.
Most Americans these days want their eggs to come from happy chickens — documentaries revealing horrific conditions inside the machinery of industrial farming long ago penetrated the public consciousness.
It doesn’t matter if you like them hard-boiled, scrambled or soaked in heart-clogging hollandaise sauce: When eggs are this cheap, it’s a good time to get cracking.
FRANCESVILLE, Ind. — With grocers offering eggs from chickens with different “lifestyles†— including cage free, pasture-raised and traditional cages — egg producers are scrambling to meet new individual consumer and commercial egg-buyers’ demands.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When John Bryan looks at the overall poultry landscape in Missouri, he is fairly optimistic. Bryan is the vice president of the Poultry Federation, which supports the industry in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey has highlighted the continued biosecurity efforts by Iowa turkey, egg and broiler farmers and the preparations undertaken on the state and federal level following the confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Tennessee and lo…
Northern Ireland’s main agricultural show has scrapped the poultry section this year amid ongoing concerns over bird flu.
A commercial chicken-breeding operation has tested positive for low-pathogenic avian influenza in Giles County, Tennessee. The company that manages the operation is different from the one associated with the recent detection of highly-pathogenic avian influenza in Lincoln County, Tennessee. …
A sharp increase in the number of human avian influenza cases in China has shaken the poultry industry’s global outlook for 2017. Incidents of the virus have dramatically changed market conditions in China as prices there have fallen to historic lows.
Highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza has been confirmed in a commercial chicken breeder flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. It is the first confirmed case of avian influenza in commercial poultry in…
West Liberty Foods will add free range, slow growth chickens to its offerings with the acquisition of an Arkansas-based chicken grower and processor.The West Liberty, Iowa, company said it has agreed to purchase the assets of Crystal Lake Farms and Free Ranger, headquartered in Decatur, Arka…
STILLWATER, Okla. - The highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak that became the largest animal health emergency in U.S. history may have subsided, but vigilance is still needed.Â
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