Egg prices could jump another 41% this year, USDA says, as Trump's bird flu plan unveiled

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Egg prices could jump another 41% this year, USDA says, as Trump’s bird flu plan unveiled

By JOSH FUNK and JOSH BOAK
Updated 2:19 PM EST, February 26, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

With an emphasis on tightening up biosecurity on farms, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the USDA will invest another $1 billion on top of the roughly $2 billion it has already spent battling bird flu since the outbreak began in 2022. Officials had hinted at the plan earlier this month.

It’s not clear how much more farmers can do to keep the virus out.

Egg and poultry farmers have already been working to protect their birds ever since the 2015 bird flu outbreak by taking measures like requiring workers to change clothes and shower before entering barns, using separate sets of tools and sanitizing any vehicles that enter farms. The challenge is that the virus is spread easily by wild birds as they migrate past farms.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/record-egg-prices-usda-bird-flu-virus-92e9f5fbc4e0a792be484a4aee5b9c16

[hlthe2b]

1. We simply have to let producers vaccinate their flocks. Europeans don't want to import vaccinated birds, but

if the industry is wiped out (essentially) here and can't even produce for the US market, I don't see that USDA has a choice.

[surfered]

2. Did his plan include the firing of the USDA workers responding to the bird flu?

[C_U_L8R]

3. What plan? Does anyone see a plan?

[regnaD kciN]

4. WHAT "plan"...?

It seems to me that the Trump plan to combat bird flu is something designed by the Giant Bugblatter Beast of Traal: if you can't see it, it can't see you. (See also: "Trump's COVID plan." )

[JBTaurus83]

5. Now the GOP

gets to see what it feels like to be blamed for inflation out of their control. If we have a free election next year (big if), there is no way they will remain in control of congress. Rates are not going to come down, groceries are going to increase in price, and they are in the process of laying off tens of thousands of working class Americans. They with their family and friends will be highly pissed off by next November when voting rolls around.

[doc03]

6. Wasnt't the GOP plan for COVID to let it run its course

until we developed a natural immunity? Just let the all the chickens die and start over.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Bird flu vaccination policies by country

Bird flu vaccination policies by country

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2023


A growing number of countries are turning to vaccinations against avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, to stem one of the world’s worst outbreaks of the deadly virus.

More than 30 countries have resorted to the use of vaccination against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) since 2005, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said, based on the data reported by its members.

Here are some examples of countries that have started vaccinating against bird flu, are in the process of allowing farmers to do so, or are still opposed to using bird flu vaccines in poultry.

International standards drawn up by WOAH allow for vaccinations against bird flu and with no trade restrictions, if adequate surveillance of vaccinated flocks shows there is no virus in circulation.

MEXICO – It authorised emergency vaccinations against the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu strain in 2023.
CHINA – started vaccinating against bird flu in buffer areas of disease outbreak sites in 2004.
EGYPT – The North African country has been vaccinating against bird flu since 2006.



COUNTRIES OR REGIONS ON TRACK TO START VACCINATIONS
EUROPEAN UNION – The bloc’s 27 member states agreed to implement a bird flu vaccine strategy in May 2023

Uhh..
COUNTRIES NOT USING VACCINES
UNITED STATES –
UNITED KINGDOM –

And that is about it.. The thing about not being able to export seems to only apply to UK

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/02/17/bird-flu-vaccination-policies-by-country/