Colorado Workers with Bird Flu Toiled in Heat, Without Effective Protective Gear August 5, 2024 By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen Colorado workers who contracted bird flu were working during extreme heat and under large fans, factors that made wearing protective...
Chicken Culling, Disposal Raise Concern as Bird Flu Spreads July 19, 2024 By Leah Douglas The spread of bird flu among poultry and dairy farms has heightened some health experts’ concerns that the process of...
Colorado Workers with Bird Flu Toiled in Heat, Without Effective Protective Gear July 17, 2024 By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen Colorado workers who contracted bird flu were working during extreme heat and under large fans, factors that made wearing protective...
Food Safety Regulators Expand Bird Flu Testing in Milk Products June 26, 2024 By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has begun testing more dairy products for evidence of the bird flu virus as...
US to Provide Nearly $200M to Contain Bird Flu Spread on Dairy Farms May 13, 2024 By Leah Douglas The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among...
Federal Crop Insurance Provides Billions in Profit for Insurers, Says USDA December 5, 2023 By Leah Douglas Roughly one-third of U.S. government spending to insure the nation’s crops since 2011 has gone to insurance companies that derive...
Staff at Top US Farm Research Center File Complaint Alleging Unsafe Work Conditions May 19, 2023 By Leah Douglas Three employees of the largest agricultural research facility in the U.S. have filed federal whistleblower complaints alleging that the facility’s...
Crop Insurance Payouts Rise as Climate Change Worsens Droughts, Floods January 27, 2022 By Leah Douglas Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past...
Biden Administration Unveils ‘Wildfire Crisis Strategy’ for Western States January 19, 2022 By Leah Douglas The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a 10-year plan to treat and maintain millions of additional acres of forests in...
Report Finds Meat Plant Workers’ COVID Cases Much Higher Than Previous Estimates October 28, 2021 By Leah Douglas Workers at the leading U.S. meatpacking plants experienced cases and death from COVID-19 that were up to three times previous...