Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 4/13/22

Consumers are paying more for eggs right now, but inventory is still higher than during the last major outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis. As of Wednesday afternoon, USDA's website reports 24.95 million commercial and backyard birds have been confirmed with bird flu and depopulated since February in now 26 states. Missing from USDA's numbers is a flock of 1.7 million egg-laying hens from a farm in Dixon County...

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