Michigan has reported the most cases of the bird flu in dairy herds in the country, but officials said that’s likely because of widespread testing in the state.
2015 was an important year for agricultural stories, from the slump in the U.S. farm economy because of plunging commodity prices to the outbreak of avian influenza and Congress repealing mandatory country-of-origin labeling on meat products.
On Thursday, Gov. Terry Branstad requested a Presidential Disaster Declaration [https://governor.iowa.gov/2015/06/gov-branstad-requests-presidential-disaster-declaration-due-to-bird-flu-outbreak-in-iowa] for four Iowa counties due to the bird flu outbreak that, according to the governor’s press rele
Highly pathogenic avian influenza – bird flu – has affected more than a dozen U.S. states and led to the slaughter of more than a billion birds. Poultry producers in Arkansas alone have had to kill more than 870 million broilers and about 30 million turkeys in attempt to control spread of the virus.
