Farmworkers across the state are reacting to the recent announcement from U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stating ...

The head of the Department of Animal Science at the KNUST has expressed deep concern over the absence of commercial breeding ...

As a sovereign state, South Africa has the right to make its own decisions and not be “coerced” by American requests”. Being “coerced” is the impression I got, because the implication is, if we don’t ...

ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — The third US Grains Council (USGC) African Buyers and Sellers Conference in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, ...

U.S. poultry farmers have faced bird flu outbreaks before from other subtypes of the virus. For example, in an outbreak of H5N2 and H5N8 bird flus from 2014 to 2015 farmers lost more than 50 ...

Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, a leading farm lobby, said on Thursday that farm workers were key to the nation's food supply. "If these workers are not present in ...

Right now, said Bhadelia, the CDC’s assessment is that the risk to the general public from bird flu is low. The people at highest risk of contracting H5N1 right now are those whose occupations involve ...

No PPE. Just blood stains and feathers In July 2024, hundreds of workers descended on two poultry farms in rural Colorado, an hour northeast of Denver, to kill over 3 million egg-laying chickens.

Some 350,000 birds at Daybreak Farms sites in Mpumalanga, an hour east of Johannesburg, were left starving after the company ran out of money to buy feed and pay its workers.

Significant changes to the way commercial operations raise and product poultry may need to occur to stop the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). “Farms were built for ...

A poultry farmer in St. Ignatius says that a recent change implemented by the U.S. Postal Service has led to hundreds of chicks either dying or getting sick while they are being transferred from a ...

About 65 dairy and poultry workers have tested positive for the bird flu since March 2024, but the true number of infections is higher. A KFF Health News investigation found that patchy surveillance ...