# Costs of US avian flu outbreak in 2014/5 - Food & Agribusiness

> A USDA Economic Research Service study put the trade losses from the 2014/15 high pathogenic avian influenza outbreak at £1.3bn, with more than 50 million birds lost. It found egg and turkey prices rose on lower supply while broiler producers faced lower prices due to foreign trade restrictions.

- Date: 2018-01-05 · published 2018-01-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67002-costs-of-us-avian-flu-outbreak-in-2014-5-food-and-agribusiness
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Lower layer and turkey supply raised those prices, while export restrictions on broilers weighed on that sector's prices. This is a retrospective cost study, so it has limited direct price impact today.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bearish ▼

## Sources

- foodagribusiness.world: https://www.foodagribusiness.world/poultry/costs-of-us-avian-flu-outbreak-in-2014-5

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