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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".

From hurricanes to tornadoes, wildfires and drought, USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey’s top ten list of weather stories for 2024 is indeed eventful. Rod Bain joins Brad to look at some of the weather and climatic events that made news in 2024 in this edition of “Agriculture USA”. PARTICIPANTS: Rod...

A USDA meteorologist's list of top weather events in our nation this year includes what appears to be one of the warmest years on record. (Rod Bain and Brad Rippey)

If you are still trying to keep your New Year's resolutions to lose weight, one expert says maybe you should include your pets in those resolutions. On this edition of "Agriculture USA" Gary Crawford reports on what some say is an epidemic of pet obesity and what we pet owners can do about it...

USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey looks at December temperatures so far and if that is enough to push 2024 into the record books as the warmest year ever, surpassing 2012.