U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a nearly 50 percent drop in wholesale egg prices following agency response.
The 2025 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Junior Market Auctions set multiple records, with champion steers, lambs, goats, and poultry selling.
Up to $100 million is allocated to fight HPAI through research, prevention, and vaccine development, supporting farmers, and improving biosecurity.
The bipartisan Lowering Egg Prices Act seeks to overturn a federal regulation that forces farmers to discard nearly 400 million eggs annually.
Mississippi has confirmed an outbreak of H7N9 in a Noxubee County broiler breeder flock; the first commercial case of H7 HPAI in years.
Kennedy’s proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry flocks instead of culling has drawn criticism from scientists, while the USDA considers vaccines.
OSHA fined a Mar-Jac Poultry poultry plant after a worker died in 2021. While the case was appealed, another worker was killed.
Egg prices have reached record highs in 2025 due to avian influenza and inflation, leaving farmers with rising costs despite higher retail prices.
As egg prices remain high in the U.S., more travelers are attempting to smuggle cheaper eggs from Mexico, prompting CBP to increase enforcement and fines.
Just weeks after being sworn into her role as U.S. Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins is focusing on battling the spread of bird flu, protecting the poultry industry, and helping to bring egg prices down.