As prices skyrocketed, and egg giant Cal-Maine raked in record profits, the company was hit by one of the biggest egg thefts in history.

Migratory bird season peaks in Michigan in May. Dairy and poultry farmers worry that the birds could bring H5N1 avian influenza with them to Michigan and infect their flocks and herds.

That's because migratory birds can carry the H5N1 avian influenza virus — a highly pathogenic bird flu that has brought devastation to poultry operations in the state since 2022, and has increasingly ...

Ostriches on a British Columbia farm have died of the avian flu. Canada ordered hundreds of others to be culled. But two top Trump administration officials have objected.

The top five egg producers – CalMaine Foods, Rose Acre Farms, Daybreak Foods, Hillendale Farms, and Versova Holdings – control nearly half of the nation’s egg-laying flock. This market structure, the ...

Opal is a private company headquartered in Neosho, Missouri, and partially owned by Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms, the nation’s second-largest egg production company.

America’s egg producers are making record profits while receiving tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers via the USDA for bird-flu related culls, The Post has learned. Cal-Maine, the country ...

Opal is a private company headquartered in Neosho, Missouri, and partially owned by Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms, the nation’s second-largest egg production company. Opal Foods has received $24 ...

When a poultry farm tests positive for bird flu, the clock starts. Within the first 72 hours, farmers start depopulating, an industry term for killing contaminated flocks. Despite the sweltering heat ...

Despite losing 2.6 million birds in a recent outbreak of avian flu, Indiana-based egg producer Rose Acre farms has not received USDA relief for losses incurred. Photo by Peter Werkman, Unsplash.

The spread of avian influenza shows no signs of slowing, as outbreaks have been reported nearly every week this year. Rose Acre Farms in Jackson County lost over two and a half million egg layers ...