Insights and Stories on Poultry/Eggs

Apr. 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm CDT

Updated, April 29, 2015 — Ontario is urging poultry farmers to look into the AgriStability income stabilization plan, after the province’s third poultry farm to catch H5N2 avian flu this month has put down all its turkeys. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Monday that “humane depopulation” has already been […]

By Staff

Apr. 28, 2015 at 5:24 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. poultry producer, plans to eliminate use of human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by September 2017, one of the most aggressive timetables yet set by an American poultry company. The Arkansas-based chicken and meat company also said Tuesday it is working […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Apr. 27, 2015 at 6:54 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday asked China to drop a ban on imports of U.S. poultry imposed because of an outbreak of bird flu in chickens and turkeys. The U.S. wants China to limit trade only from states or regions that have had cases […]

By Tom Polansek

Apr. 24, 2015 at 5:45 pm CDT

Already under preventive quarantine, a turkey farm in southwestern Ontario’s Oxford County is now believed to have the province’s third avian flu outbreak in poultry. On its website Friday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it was notified Thursday that presumptive H5 avian flu had been detected at the farm […]

By Staff

Apr. 23, 2015 at 6:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Minnesota declared a state of emergency on Thursday over a fast-spreading strain of avian flu that has led to the extermination of more than 7.3 million birds in the country. It followed Wisconsin’s action on Monday. The highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of bird flu has been […]

By P.J. Huffstutter