USDA, bird flu and eggs

Egg prices could jump another 41% this year, USDA says, as Trump's bird flu plan unveiled
The Agriculture Department predicts the current record prices for eggs could soar more than 40% in 2025, as the Trump administration offered the first new details Wednesday about its plan to battle bird flu and ease the cost of eggs.
USDA details new plan to tackle bird flu and lower egg prices
In a new op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins outlined a new strategy she says will mitigate the spread of bird flu and lower the price of eggs — a signature issue of the 2024 election.
USDA to invest $1B in 5-point strategy to combat bird flu, lower egg prices
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the federal government will spend up to $1billion to combat bird flu, and hopefully lower the rising price of eggs.
USDA looks at boosting egg imports in $1 billion plan to lower prices and combat bird flu
The USDA is exploring an increase in egg imports as part of a $1 billion plan to combat bird flu and high egg prices.
US will spend up to $1 billion to combat bird flu, USDA secretary says
The U.S. will invest up to $1 billion to combat the spread of bird flu, as well as increase imports of eggs, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday.
Egg prices predicted to jump over 40% in 2025: USDA
Economists predict that egg prices will surge more than 40% in 2025 as outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza continue to hinder the U.S. egg supply.
Trump admin to deregulate egg industry to combat high prices, says USDA secretary
USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins shares the Trump administration's new strategy to fight bird flu as egg prices remain high.
New USDA Secretary says she's focused on reducing avian flu, lowering high egg prices
Less than two weeks on the job, the new Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is focused on the avian flu that has wiped out millions of chickens and raised the price of a dozen eggs to nearly $5. That's a 53% jump from one year ago.
Egg prices predicted to soar more than 41% in 2025: USDA
Egg prices are predicted to increase by 41.1% in 2025, according to a report released by the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday.
USDA forecasts egg prices to surge 41% in 2025 amid avian flu outbreak
Egg prices in the U.S. are projected to rise 41.1% by the end of 2025 due to an avian flu outbreak, with 53% increases reported over the past year.
USDA makes profound announcement that could alter the future of our food system: 'We've got to build'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that more than $6 billion will be awarded to rural communities to back ...
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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins vows bipartisanship with states
“No matter whether you are red state or blue state or purple state or whatever it is, we want your partnership,” the ...
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USDA Has Begun Canceling Contracts Based on Trump’s DEI Order
On February 14, USDA sent official cancellation letters to many non-profits with contracts within multiple programs.
Farmers sue USDA after agency deletes climate change data
The lawsuit says the Agriculture Department is hindering farmers from using the data to make “agricultural decisions” while ...
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USDA Layoffs Are Wasting Public Money and Decimating Popular Programs
This story was originally published by WIRED a nd is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
USDA review of University of Maine funding could hit PFAS, biofuel research
A U.S. Department of Agriculture investigation into the agency's funding for the University of Maine could compromise ...
Inside the USDA, staffers struggle with Trump’s funding freeze
One office in the Agriculture Department show how efforts to comply with Trump’s DEI order have halted some grant payments, ...
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Pressure builds on USDA to release rural energy grants
The Agriculture Department said it will make an announcement on rural energy funding "soon," after Democrats likened the ...