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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Agriculture Department is de-emphasizing vaccines as a tool to control bird flu in poultry operations, leaving advocates for the shots seeking clarification on where the department stands on them.
Prices for most major row crops are likely to fall again this year, keeping pressure on farmer earnings, even as prices for cattle and poultry continue to rise in 2025 due to constrained supplies, according to USDA.
A genotype of highly pathogenic avian influenza previously identified in wild birds has been found for the first time in dairy cattle, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday.
Poultry operations seeking compensation for the loss of birds and eggs due to avian flu will have to get a biosecurity audit before restocking, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending several measures to reduce the risk of farmworkers being infected with bird flu as well as testing of poultry and dairy employees who may have been exposed to the H5N1 virus, even if they do not show symptoms of illness.
Federal health officials say they haven’t been able to pinpoint how a person in Missouri was infected with bird flu, the 14th case in the U.S. this year but the first that appears not to involve animal exposure.