Get updates of all things Iowa politics delivered to your inbox. Since the start of the current bird flu outbreak in 2022, state and federal officials have required the destruction of 16.2 million ...

Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone was ...

USDA both regulating and promoting livestock industries – prevents appropriate responses to outbreaks of infectious disease.

Iowa is the nation's largest producer of ... more than 100 million poultry birds in the nation's worst-ever bird flu outbreak.

Officials suspect wild migrating birds are likely to blame for the first known infection of a flock in Hawaii, which had been the last state in the country with no reported cases in poultry or wild ...

In this December 2, 2021, photo a hog walks in a pasture on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. [AP Photo/Charlie ... The current outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cattle was first detected ...

with an Iowa company arguing it shouldn’t be forced to disclose its pricing information. A central element of the case is whether a fabricated claim of a bird flu outbreak is to blame for one ...

State officials announced Wednesday that a severe form of bird flu has ... take these outbreaks “so seriously.” The case also caught the attention of agricultural officials in Iowa, one ...

The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of bird flu in Hawaii on Monday, the first case of the ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed the presence of avian influenza in Hawaii on Monday, the first ...

In terms of bird losses, California has had 5,798,400 head of commercial poultry claimed by the HPAI outbreak in 2024. Only ...