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IowaWatch, an Iowa-based news nonprofit, is joining Investigate Midwest and will have a new focus reporting on agriculture.
Wild ducks that are prominent carriers of the highly contagious avian influenza are migrating through Iowa in their greatest numbers this month.
A 2021 law change that allows Iowa to fine farmers when weedkiller — particularly dicamba — drifts to neighbors’ fields is on hold, at least until later this year, as the state develops new rules for private and commercial applicators.
The spread of a bird flu that is deadly to poultry raises the grisly question of how farms manage to quickly kill and dispose of millions of chickens and turkeys.
Bird flu has now been confirmed in 12 of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Zoos across North America -- including the one in Des Moines -- are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly bird flu.
This marks the 15th case confirmed this year in Iowa, all of them striking after March 1.
Two more cases of the bird flu were confirmed Sunday in commercial flocks in Western Iowa, bringing to 14 the number of outbreaks so far this year in Iowa.
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.
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