“Farmers of all sorts are price-takers, not price-makers,” said Glenn Hickman, the president of Hickman Family Farms. Last week, he said prices often reflect the market.

Migratory bird season peaks in Michigan in May. Dairy and poultry farmers worry that the birds could bring H5N1 avian influenza with them to Michigan and infect their flocks and herds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On February 20, 2025, Secretary Brooke Rollins convened a roundtable with two dozen farmers from seven states to address pressing agricultural challenges, including strategies ...

We are now in year four of a catastrophic global animal disease outbreak that has wiped out more than 130 million egg-laying hens in the U.S. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has ...

Citing effects of tariffs, Vital Farms tells retail partners like Kroger, Target and Whole Foods that it will raise egg prices at least 10% this month First it was the avian flu outbreak, and now ...

Makers of plant-based eggs are expanding production and launching flashy marketing campaigns in a bid to cash in on record-high prices of chicken eggs in the US amid the country’s bird flu ...

Egg prices ticked down for the first time in nearly a year during the first two weeks of April, the data analytics firm Earnest Analytics said Monday. Across 15 brands, a dozen eggs cost an ...

Although Sprouts Farmers Market charged $11.29 for a 1-pound block of cheddar cheese at its deli counter, other cheese options at the store were cheaper.

This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every continent except for Australia.

The device would help farmers target individual chickens to prevent culling the entire flock. Now, a St. Louis based life sciences company wants to commercialize it by the end of the year.

The USDA said that since April 2024, there have been avian influenza found in 336 commercial flocks and 207 backyard flocks, for a total of more than 90.9 million birds affected.