A new report by the group Food and Water Watch says egg companies are exploiting the bird flu outbreak for profit in Iowa.
Jason and Jami Sherer own Cobb Hollow Farms — and are the newest recipients of the Good Farm Neighbor Award. "We're very ...
A commercial turkey flock of about 30,000 birds in Sac County was recently infected by a very contagious and deadly avian flu ...
An outbreak of bird flu in 2022 caused egg prices to skyrocket ... birds have been destroyed in Iowa to limit the spread of the disease. It can take farms months to recover after an outbreak ...
KPBS reporter Melissa Mae tells us how a local egg farm is handling the situation. The Centers for Disease Control says the avian flu has affected more than 50 million birds since November ...
They’ve installed “biosecurity truck washes” and employee showers. They sanitize visitors’ tires, blast noise cannons, or play predatory bird calls to scare off wild waterfowl that carry ...
(WWLP) – As bird flu ... farm. Those who do won’t be allowed to tour and must wipe their feet off with disinfectant at the door. Even with the added cost of making sure everything stays clean ...
The reason the bird flu outbreak has such a large effect on egg prices is that when the virus is found on a farm, the entire flock is killed to limit the spread of disease. Because massive egg farms ...
The Trump administration believes a renewed emphasis on biosecurity can help in the battle against bird flu and ease egg prices.
As egg prices go up, so does the demand for local eggs. “We posted 10 dozen yesterday (on Facebook) and within 20 minutes ...
because they can spread the highly contagious flu to farms across a region as they migrate. Bird flu’s devastating impact on egg-laying hens in recent years is the clear culprit for higher egg ...