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USDA's NIFA highlights agricultural biosecurity funding, citing the 2014-2015 highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak that cost the US poultry industry about 51.5 million birds, over $1 billion in government response costs, and significant export losses. The piece argues prevention protects food supply and prices.
Avian influenza outbreaks cut poultry and egg supply, raising feed demand offsets and shifting feed buying patterns; biosecurity investment reduces the risk of such shocks to feed-grain and meal demand.
usda.govAug 27, 2019Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
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