The firings of thousands of USDA employees included some who the department acknowledged were essential to bird flu effort ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers who were involved in the government’s ...

Federal agriculture workers laid off in "Valentine's Day Massacre" deny they were part of a bloated bureaucracy.

Firings of USDA employees who coordinated bird flu response were accidental, NBC quotes an agency spokesperson as saying ...

Bird flu persists in Iowa in 2025, with a northwest Iowa turkey flock where an infection was detected destroyed to prevent ...

So far, Bird Flu has hit a dozen major commercial poultry production facilities across Indiana since the beginning of this year. The virus is having a major impact, not just on egg and poultry prices, ...

The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S, Department of Agriculture show the ...

A commercial turkey flock of about 30,000 birds in Sac County was recently infected by a very contagious and deadly avian flu ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County, according to a Wednesday press release from Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said that the Iowa Department of Ag & Land Stewardship is monitoring the ongoing ...

The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters." ...

Bird flu, more formally known as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), has been affecting Iowa farms since 2022. More than 90 million birds have been killed because of the virus nationwide, ...