News & Updates
- HPAI Act resurfaces in US Senate, HouseThe proposed legislation makes growers within avian flu control zones eligible for indemnity payments, even if their flocks haven't been infected. ... read more
- CoBank: How shifting consumer demand patterns are contributing to high egg pricesDENVER — U.S. consumers are facing a prolonged period of higher egg prices that will likely extend through the Easter holiday and well into 2025, CoBank analysts report. Rising egg prices and increased volatility in the market are largely attributable to supply challenges brought on by highly pathogenic avian influenza. Since the current outbreak began impacting U.S. poultry farms in 2022, nearly 100 million table egg laying hens have been ... read more
- USDA moves to reinstate fired H5N1 response workersThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it is working quickly to reverse the firings of several agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 outbreak. ... read more
- FDA human food safety head resigns amid agency firingsThe deputy commissioner for foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resigned after at least 89 people out of 2,000 in his division were fired last weekend. ... read more
- Wyoming woman hospitalized with H5N1She is believed to have become ill through contact with infected backyard poultry. ... read more
- A look at broiler production and industry challenges for 2025WASHINGTON — Chicken companies are looking forward to at least a “semi-golden” marketing environment in the coming new year, if not measurably longer. However, two challenges, at least, tilt the outlook away from being “solid gold.” According to USDA data, producers are beginning to react to seeing better times ahead by modestly stepping-up egg sets and shifting relatively more chickens into the heaviest weight category, defined by USDA as 7.75+ ... read more
- Digital chicken models could improve poultry productivityVirtual poultry rely on mathematical equations, experimental observations and lots of training. ... read more
- Butterball ends 2024 with lower income, salesLower production costs and steady sales volume were not enough to offset lower market prices. ... read more
- Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem? Nevada takes a crack at itLAS VEGAS — Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs. Now four years later, a dozen eggs costs an average of nearly $5 in the U.S. because of the lingering bird flu, so Nevada passed a law the governor signed Thursday that will allow the state to suspend that law temporarily in ... read more
- Third HPAI dairy cattle spillover identified by APHISWASHINGTON — There is a reported third spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy cattle, confirmed by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Feb. 13. The agency notes that HPAI clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D1.1 was detected in Arizona dairy cattle as “a result of state tracing and investigation, following an initial detection on silo testing under the USDA’s National Milk Testing Strategy.” APHIS, along with the ... read more
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