March 19, 2025 (Washington D.C.) — The Agriculture Department predicts egg prices could rise by more than 40%, on top of already steep price rises in 2024. While egg producers blame bird flu ...

A source says USDA employees who worked on bird flu response have accepted incentives to leave the agency, which could strain ...

The USDA's workforce reduction could hinder its bird flu monitoring efforts. Employees involved in avian influenza testing ...

Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, straining the federal capacity to monitor the spread of the virus, ...

As the pervasive H5N1 bird flu continues to spread and impact the nation’s egg prices, the Trump administration has reportedly fired some staff who were working on the nation’s response to the ...

and jeopardized federal work including wildfire mitigation and bird flu response. The unsigned Monday emails came as thousands of probationary USDA employees remain in limbo after a federal court ...

HPAI is a major threat to the poultry industry, according to the USDA website. Once bird flu is introduced on a chicken farm, if unaddressed, most of the flock will die within a few days ...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins in a Feb. 26 Fox News interview indicated USDA might try out a pilot ... multiple agencies would work together to curb bird flu. Scientists also have ...

You’ve most likely heard about bird flu in the context of egg prices. Eggs are expensive and hard to find right now because the bird flu has kicked off an old fashioned supply and demand problem ...

The authorities have detected a bird flu case at a government poultry farm in Jashore -- the first in Bangladesh since 2018 -- raising concerns among farmers. Officials were closely monitoring the ...

The U of M's USDA grant will go to its College of Veterinary Medicine for work on nine cooperative projects to learn more about how highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is transmitted to dairy ...