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Free-range chickens may have greater exposure to bird flu than their caged compatriots because the free birds have access to outdoor areas that could be visited by wild birds thought to carry the disease.
The latest case makes 10 outbreaks recorded this year — and all this month — to strike in Iowa.
The outbreaks in Hamilton and Guthrie Counties impact over 1.5 million birds, bringing the total birds killed in Iowa to 8 million from nine total outbreaks.
Robert Wade Chittick, 63, of Williamsburg, was found buried under 10 feet of corn after emergency responders were called around 7:30 a.m. Friday
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa agriculture officials said they have confirmed another case of bird flu in a flock of commercial pullet chickens.
Another case of the bird flu -- the third to strike Buena Vista County and the sixth to hit Iowa this year -- has been confirmed in a commercial turkey flock, officials announced Thursday.
Sixty percent of Iowa business leaders still say they believe sales will grow in this year’s second quarter, according to a survey from the Iowa Association of Business and Industry -- but that’s a drop from 76 pecent who expressed such confidence for 2022’s first three months.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s cancellation of poultry events has the potential to affect upcoming county and state fair exhibitions, depending on how long the disease plagues the state this year.
Iowa farmers received $243 million in insurance payments for flooded crops from 2001-2020, with $83 million going to five Iowa counties considered “hot spots” for the payments. Instead, that money could have “retired” nearly 12,000 flood-prone acres from farming.
The Buena Vista County flock is the second infected flock in the same county reported so far this year.
Beginning this fall, green 14-ton tractors that can plow day or night with no one sitting in the cab, or even watching nearby, will come off the Deere and Co. factory assembly line in Waterloo.
Nearly 7 million chickens and turkeys in 13 states have been killed this year due to bird flu.
In the past 10 years, Iowa’s state legislators have passed four separate laws intended to discourage activists from obtaining jobs at agricultural facilities for the purpose of conducting undercover investigations into the treatment of animals.
