Insights and Stories on Poultry

A chicken in a commercial poultry barn. Photo: Stephen Ausmus/ARS/USDA

CFIA raw poultry policy to tighten food safety

Sep. 9, 2025 at 10:23 am CDT

Canadian poultry slaughterhouses will have to test carcasses for pathogens before chilling when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s new pre-chill policy comes into force Dec. 1, 2025.

Supply management bill goes straight to Senate

Jun. 6, 2025 at 3:55 pm CDT

By Karen Briere

Bird flu in top chicken exporter Brazil triggers trade bans

May. 16, 2025 at 11:45 am CDT

By Ana Mano Isabel Teles Reuters roberto-samora

Is supply management shielding Canada’s poultry and egg farmers from bird flu?

May. 1, 2025 at 4:14 pm CDT

By Jeff Melchior

Live poultry markets in New York City, suburbs shut over bird flu

Feb. 7, 2025 at 12:27 pm CST

By Reuters Susan Heavey Tom Polansek

New Zealand suspends poultry exports after first case of H7 bird flu

Dec. 2, 2024 at 3:52 pm CST

New Zealand said on Monday that it had suspended all poultry exports after detecting a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza at a poultry farm on the South Island.

By Renju Jose Reuters

HPAI cases rise in B.C. amid birds migrating south for winter

Nov. 1, 2024 at 2:41 pm CDT

British Columbia poultry farms are particularly vulnerable to highly pathenogenic avian influenza due to the annual migration of waterfowl through the Fraser Valley.

By Miranda Leybourne

Succession plan drives dairy farm’s journey into poultry

Oct. 18, 2024 at 10:09 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – The big new red barn at Rickeen Farms will house feathered livestock instead of the farms’ traditional four-legged ruminants. “Our passion is in the dairy industry, but we just can’t grow that the way we want to right now,” said Brett Shantz. “So, we’re diversifying.” Shantz, his […]

By Diana Martin

U.S. farmers call for vaccine option to fight bird flu as wildfowl migration begins

Sep. 27, 2024 at 1:24 pm CDT

U.S. farmers are increasing pressure to allow vaccinations for chickens, turkeys and cows to protect them from bird flu infections that have devastated flocks for three years,

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek Reuters

Bird flu spreads to California dairy cows

Sep. 5, 2024 at 3:34 pm CDT

Cows at three dairy farms in California tested positive for H5N1 bird flu at the end of August, marking an expansion of the virus into the largest dairy producing region of the United States, according to an announcement from the state’s agriculture department. More than 190 herds have been infected […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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