Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain met with Secretary Department of U-S Department of Agriculture Brooke Rollan ds on how to deal with the effects of Bird Influenza and get egg prices under control.
“$500 million for increased biosecurity. The main thing we need to stop it from getting into the chicken house. $400 million in financial relief who have lost their farms. $1100 for vaccine research to expedite the development of vaccines, and that’s for vaccines for livestock and for poultry.”
Strain also says temporarily will allow the import of eggs into the United States to help decrease egg prices and allow poultry farmers to increase the egg supply.
“And you just can’t get eggs overnight. Remember you have to have the hens to lay fertilized eggs and then you raise the pullets and those then become the next generation to be egg-laying hens or “table eggs.” So, it takes a while to rebuild the population.”
Strain says there is not an overnight solution but is confident that in time egg prices should be back under control, and back to normal.
“I tell you what if egg prices go up another 47% there’s gonna be riots.”
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