News & Updates

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is urging utilities and their truck drivers to understand and practice biosecurity measures when operating on or near poultry farms, as part of a cooperative statewide effort to safeguard against the outbreak of avian influenza. ... read more

Jennie-O Turkey Store saw its operating profit drop 45 percent and its dollar sales drop by 12 percent during the third quarter of fiscal year 2015. ... read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) is expected this week by August 21 to issue a request for proposal (RFP) to vaccine manufacturing companies to have avian influenza vaccine produced to protect U.S. poultry from future outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza (HPAI). ... read more

Canada has lifted its ban on poultry and poultry products from Arkansas and Montana, as the two states appear to now be free of avian influenza. ... read more

The 2015 avian influenza outbreak is costing Iowa nearly 8,500 jobs, some of which may never be replaced. That’s the finding from a new study, commissioned by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) and conducted by Decision Innovation Solutions (DIS). ... read more

The loss of more than 48 million birds to highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S. this spring has led many to wonder if the trend toward ever larger poultry farms will continue in the future, or will the risk of losing such large numbers of birds on one site, as many as 4.9 million layers or 350,000 tom turkeys, reverse this trend? My answer to this question for layers ... read more

A low pathogenic strain of H5N2 avian influenza has been detected in a commercial layer operation in El Rosario, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. ... read more

In preparation for another potential avian influenza outbreak in the fall, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comments on a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for mass carcass management. APHIS is also publishing an environmental assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for highly pathogenic avian influenza. ... read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and state and industry partners are treating the potential threat of more highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) infections in the fall of 2015 with the utmost seriousness. ... read more

The outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza that swept through the Upper Midwest this spring resulted in the loss of around 8 million of Rembrandt Foods’ hens. Rembrandt had grown from an idea on a business school paper to one of the world’s largest egg products companies in just 14 years. The company was the third largest egg producer in the U.S. in the February 2015 Egg Industry Top Egg ... read more

Anhui becomes second Chinese province to clear US inspection for poultry trade ... read more

Together with their employees, families and communities, Iowa's egg farmers are looking toward the future and to fully resuming egg production in the state following the devastating avian influenza crisis that took place in the spring of 2015, the Iowa Poultry Association (IPA) reported. ... read more

Avian influenza continues to be one of the most dynamic topics in the U.S. poultry industry. Here are three news developments concerning the virus that you should know. ... read more

Although no detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been recorded in the U.S. for more than seven weeks, the toll the virus has taken on the U.S. poultry and egg industry in 2015 has been huge. ... read more

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (WDATCP) has released all quarantines on premises affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza earlier in 2015. ... read more