FAMILY OWNED FARMS ARE THE ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL BACKBONE OF IOWA. SINCE THE FIRST SETTLERS ... JASON SAYS THEY’RE MEETING THEIR GOAL, BUT BIRD FLU MAKES THAT DIFFICULT. THEY LIMIT ACCESS ...

Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone was ...

A 10-kilometer area around the farm was identified as a “control zone”, and it includes portions of Kosciusko and Marshall ...

he said. "Unfortunately, if bird flu were to spring up again, if there was another major outbreak at another large farm, then ...

With record high egg prices, should the U.S. vaccinate chickens against bird flu? Any such program would be expensive and logistically difficult.

Bird flu is a virus that spreads among wild birds but can also infect poultry and livestock. The ongoing outbreak has caused a widespread egg shortage ... about bird flu in Iowa's dairy cows.

A backyard flock of chickens and ducks in Dallas County was recently infected with a readily transmissible and deadly avian flu ... 7 million egg-laying chickens were destroyed in Iowa in December ...

By Seth Millstein for Sentient. Broadcast version by Alex Gonzalez for Arizona News Connection reporting for the ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says it may take time for falling wholesale egg prices to benefit U.S. consumers.

It owns 43 egg production facilities, which stuff an average of 1 million hens into each operation. Despite narratives blaming bird flu shortages for price hikes, Cal-Maine factory farms remained free ...

The current bird flu outbreak ... especially egg-laying hens, is not the result of direct infection of the flu virus, but the result of the U.S. policy for individual farms to depopulate their ...