IARN — The High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) comeback has made a lot of producers in the state nervous and is giving them flashbacks to 2015 when the disease ravaged the upper Midwest costing the lives of millions of birds and costing operations millions of dollars.
However, that price in 2015 wasn’t paid without getting a little something in return. That is experience. Experience is something you cannot usually attach a price tag to. However, if you think about how we have been able to limit the number of exposures compared with 2015, that price tag could be big savings.
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig talks about where things are in relation to the outbreak in the state. We haven’t had a commercial flock test positive since the end of April, and only one backyard flock in May.
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Photo courtesy of Iowa Turkey Federation
