Items Tagged with 'vaccine'

The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $176 million to Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine for humans.

New technology with a Department of Agriculture stamp of approval could offer speedy help to hog producers hit by emerging disease outbreaks. And beef producers may soon see the benefits as well.

Department of Agriculture scientists say a vaccine to combat African Swine Fever is now closer to commercial availability following the clearance of a key regulatory hurdle.

One of the nation’s largest meatpackers and the union representing about 26,000 of its employees say a COVID-19 vaccine mandate has led to almost all of its workers being inoculated against the virus.

Scientists at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service say they have created a vaccine that is shown to offer protection from African swine fever.

The next chairman of the House Agriculture Committee tells Agri-Pulse that climate policy will be a top priority for the panel in the next Congress.

The Trump administration’s plans for distributing COVID-19 vaccines put a priority on inoculating workers in the food and agriculture sector, but how quickly the shots become available to the industry may still depend on how fast the vaccine can be distributed.

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - American livestock organizations have joined in a plea for Congress to commit three-quarters of a billion dollars in the upcoming farm bill for a five-year plan to get ready for a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak...