Coalition member sponsors include the American Meat Institute, National Chicken Council, National Cattlemen s Beef Association, National Meat Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Pork Producers Council, National Turkey Federation and United Egg Producers. Coalition member sponsors include the American Meat Institute, National Chicken Council, National Cattlemen s Beef Association, National Meat Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Pork Producers...

Department of Agriculture is overstating the threat posed by avian flu to justify its budget, and to a large extent, its existence. But the constant hum of warnings in this country about the avian flu irks him - especially since influenza has long infected about 30 percent of the native wild duck population when it migrates annually to Canada. He has also emerged as a leading naysayer on the prospects for a avian flu pandemic. Butcher insists the likelihood that the H5N1 avian flu virus in...

Avian influenza outbreaks have been reported since early May across 18 of Vietnam's 64 provinces and municipalities, mostly among unvaccinated ducks and other waterfowl. Communist Vietnam, once the country worst hit by the disease, contained earlier bird flu outbreaks through mass vaccination campaigns, culls of millions of poultry, and public education campaigns. But the virus has come back strongly this year, hitting scores of poultry farms in an unusual summer-time outbreak, especially...

A routine bird flu surveillance program detected H5N1 in a fecal swab sample from a Daurian starling, the government said in a statement issued on Saturday night. The statement said the swab sample was collected on June 4 at a pet bird shop in Hong Kong's bird garden, where about 70 shops sell pet birds and related products. Hong Kong's administration has ordered a closure, until further notice, of all the pet bird shops in the bird garden for cleansing and disinfection, the statement...

The disease killed 43 chickens and 44 ducks raised by a household in the province's Thong Nong district on June 11, the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, noting that specimens from the affected poultry have been tested positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1. Bird flu hits one more Vietnamese locality. The disease killed 43 chickens and 44 ducks raised by a household in the province's Thong Nong district on June 11, the Department of...

Rabbit and poultry exhibits will return to the poultry barn on the south side of the fairgrounds for the 2007 fair. After floor seat tickets are distributed to the sponsor and in concert promotion giveaways, Roseberry said there will be 100 floor seat tickets left for sale to the general public at $30 each. In other business, the board approved an agreement with Peavey Grain for ground storage of grain this fall on the fairgrounds. I think everybody is fine with that, Roseberry said about...