Items Tagged with 'milk supply'

The Justice Department is expanding efforts to combat anticompetitive practices in the ag industry. 

The Agriculture Department is making a wide range of resources available to dairy farmers whose herds are affected by avian flu, including reimbursing them for the cost of personal protective equipment and development of biosecurity plans, in part to gather more information about farmworker health.

More preliminary test results released today on samples of retail milk, cottage cheese and sour cream show that pasteurization is effective in inactivating highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has been found in 36 herds in nine states, FDA said today.