Items Tagged with 'H5N1'

The Agriculture Department will compensate dairy farmers for 90% of the value of milk production lost due to the H5N1 virus through use of its Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program, or ELAP.

The Justice Department is expanding efforts to combat anticompetitive practices in the ag industry. 

Agri-Pulse is hosting a webinar on July 11 at 1 p.m. EDT that’s focused on what can be done to protect against highly pathogenic avian influenza and other zoonotic diseases that have the potential to disrupt not only our food supply but the entire agriculture economy.

In this opinion piece, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stresses that biosecurity is the key to limiting the spread of H5N1 and says USDA is developing a program to compensate producers with infected dairy herds.

USDA is re-emphasizing the importance of biosecurity on dairy farms in light of reports identifying a variety of ways the H5N1 virus can infect dairy herds and nearby poultry operations, including the movement of animals and people, and the sharing of vehicles and equipment.

The list of states reporting highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy herds has grown to a dozen with Friday's announcement by Wyoming of a detection there.