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Hickman's Family Farms, the largest egg producer in Arizona and the Southwest, lost about 95% of its laying hens, roughly 6 million birds, to HPAI this year. The company has cut its workforce sharply and is urging USDA to approve use of an avian influenza vaccine, which received only a conditional license from USDA earlier this year.
Large-scale layer losses reduce demand for feed in affected regions, and the pace of vaccine approval will determine how exposed layer flocks remain to future outbreaks.
feedstuffs.comKristin BakkerJul 2, 2025Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
