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USDA Wednesday announced a comprehensive strategy in efforts to reduce Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in poultry and egg-laying flocks, and in turn, lower egg prices. (Rod Bain and USDA Chief of Staff Kailee Tkacz Buller)

USDA Chief of Staff Kailee Tkacz Buller explains some of the prongs within the Department's comprehensive strategy to combat High Path Avian Flu and high egg prices.

USDA announced Wednesday it is considering various egg import and export options as one way to lower egg prices in our country. (Rod Bain and Agriculture Department Chief of Staff Kailee Tkacz Buller)

A focus on innovations, including possible vaccination of poultry flocks, are part of recently announced USDA strategies to build up domestic egg supplies and reduce consumer egg prices. (Rod Bain and USDA Chief of Staff Kailee Tkacz Buller)

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides a page at its website to provide resources in detection and prevention of invasive species that threaten livestock and domestic animals. (Rod Bain and APHIS entomologist...

*- National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24 – 28 -* Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service entomologist Denise Bonilla talks about her agency’s educational website on invasive pests that threaten both livestock and domestic animals … "www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease".

The role our nation’s dams play in everything from irrigation, power generation, and recreation is important. Yet with several of these structures aging, work is underway to repair and restore dams while educating those living around these facilities about dam safety awareness. Rod Bain talks with...

*-STATIONS : Dam Safety Awareness Day is Tuesday, May 31st. -* Understanding the importance of safety awareness in areas where dams are located grows more important as more of these structures become surrounded by suburban and urban areas. (Rod Bain and Jose Hernandez of the Natural Resources...

A little known organization is working behind the scenes to guard the world's food supply and prevent sickness and death. Gary Crawford has more. PARTICIPANTS: Gary Crawford. Mary Frances Lowe, U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius Codex Manager.

*-STATIONS : Dam Safety Awareness Day is Tuesday, May 31st. -* Jose Hernandez of the Natural Resources Conservation Service talks about the Dam Watch monitoring system as a dam safety tool, and federal partnerships regarding efforts in dam safety and dam safety awareness.