Tom Polansek

This autumn, flocks in the $67 billion U.S. poultry industry for the first time face a double risk for infections from dairies and migrating birds that can spread the disease.

By Tom Polansek and Leah Douglas CHICAGO (Reuters) -California is investigating a possible case of bird flu in a dairy worker who had contact with infected cattle, the state's public health department said on Thursday.

Mosaic Co said on Friday that water supporting the chemical company's storage of a waste byproduct from fertilizer manufacturing in Florida probably made its way into Tampa Bay following a downpour from Hurricane Milton.

CHICAGO >> H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today.

For the first time, a bird flu infection has been detected in a pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting

U.S. farmers want something from President-elect Donald Trump that his trade policies mean he is unlikely to deliver: increased access to the market of top soy-importer China.

Basis bids for corn were steady to mixed in the U.S. Midwest on Friday as higher prices drove farmers to make sales, brokers said.

U.S. wholesale egg prices are shattering records as an accelerating outbreak of bird flu in laying hens slashes supplies while shoppers buy more to bake Christmas cookies and other holiday treats.

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale egg prices are shattering records as an accelerating outbreak of bird flu in

Some 43% of the laying hens culled in response to bird flu in the past 30 days have been in Iowa, sending wholesale prices to a new record