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Iowa agriculture officials are reporting a second case of bird flu in the state. The highly-pathogenic strain infected a commercial turkey flock in northwest Iowa's Buena Vista County.
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Iowa and U.S. agriculture officials have confirmed bird flu in the state. The virus was detected in a non-commercial backyard poultry flock in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County.
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In 2006, voters elected Bill Northey to be Secretary of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Now, after 11 years, Northey has resigned…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts consumers will be paying less for beef, pork, lamb, chicken and turkey in early 2018 than at the start of…
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Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey says the state’s poultry producers are reviewing their biosecurity measures now that new cases of avian flu…
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An outbreak of a bird flu has hit southwestern Missouri. While less contagious than the strain of avian flu that devastated the Midwest chicken and turkey…
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In 2015, an outbreak of avian flu led to the depopulation of 50 million birds across Iowa and the Midwest. During the height of the outbreak last summer,…
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Iowa’s Agriculture Secretary says his department needs more money to prevent future outbreaks of avian influenza and other livestock diseases. A request…
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Iowa’s ban on live poultry exhibitions, swap meets, exotic sales, and other gatherings of birds is ending on New Year’s Day.The final poultry operation…
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Another outbreak of bird flu in the Midwest remains likely, even if farms and public health systems are more prepared to deal with it. In spring 2015, the…