First on Fox: Republican Senator Joni Ernst A letter was sent to newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins calling for key measures to address bird epidemic farms across the country.
“When you start a new role, we know that many urgent concerns are awaiting you. We write to you to raise the USDA’s highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that continues to break outbreaks in our country’s animal agriculture sector. We are very grateful for the top priority of the testimony of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee,” said the letter from Senate Agriculture Committee member Ernst.
“The United States is now entering its fourth year of the HPAI outbreak that has been destroyed by farms, and needs to reduce more than 136 million birds in commercial poultry business and infect a small but growing number of farm workers. New urgency is needed. The Ministry of Agriculture addresses the evolving situation.”
The letter facilitates ways to address the crisis outlined by eggs and Turkish farmers, including active vaccination strategies for hens and turkeys, storage of vaccines and promotion to trading partners to ensure trade is not negatively affected.
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Senator Joni Ernst called on Trump’s USDA to take action on the bird flu crisis. (Getty)
The senator also called on the USDA to turn its attention to Biden’s order in 2024, which requires a biosafety audit of previously infected farms or farms located in the buffer zone of the control zone to allow Receive compensation.
“In principle, this change seems to enhance biosafety measures and liability for compensation, but the rules are driven away,” the letter said. “So there are few auditors trained for these audits and the audit itself is published in draft form. The U.S. The Ministry of Agriculture shall provide a sufficient number of qualified auditors before enforcing the rules.”
The letter explained: “Current chicken and small thrust compensation rates are based on inaccurate data and artificially low” and provides solutions on how to address the problem, including proposals from the egg industry to modify dependency on USDA and Calculation of land grant agency data. That would make compensation “fairer”.
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“Even if the compensation formula proposed by egg farmers is modified, these payments will not cause any damage to the producers. When reviewing the compensation activities, we also urge you to ensure that appropriate publicity is provided to all farmers.”
Bipartisan letters by Democratic Sensory John Fetterman, Amy Klobuchar, Tina Smith, Raphael Warnock, Mark Warnock and Mark Warner and Jon Ossoff and Republican Sensory Bernie Moreno, Jerry Morran ( Jerrie Moran, Roger Marshall, Todd Young, Todd McCormick, Thom Thom Tillis and Chuck Grassley.
Ernst told Fox News Digital in a statement that he told Fox News digital numbers: “I am working to protect and protect farmers’ livelihoods, the stability of the local economy and the HPAI.” spread the impact of food supply chains.” “By working with the Trump administration to determine solutions, we can ensure producers have the tools they need to stop bird flu.”
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American farmers and farmers in agricultural operations continue to develop the spread of H5N1 bird flu. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)
U.S. farmers and farmers in agricultural operations continue to develop the spread of H5N1 Bird flu, which clearly shows no signs of a slowdown in the “disaster” state Previous report.
“The real crisis is that we are experiencing the worst bird flu outbreak in the past 10 years since 2015, which is probably the worst bird flu outbreak we have ever encountered in the history of this country,” Eggs last week, Unlimited Vice President Brian Moscogiuri said on Fox and Friends.
“We have lost 120 million birds since the beginning of 2022. In the past few months alone, we have lost 45 million egg hens since mid-October.” “We have lost Mass production, over 13%. So we just deal with supply shortages. It’s just a disaster because the virus is on three top eggs in the country. It doesn’t seem to stop anytime soon.”
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At the confirmation hearing, Rollins says She is “very focused” in finding a team to fight the bird flu and other diseases.
A USDA spokesman told Fox News that “Secretary Rollins received letters from Senator Ernst and her colleagues yesterday.”
“She will respond in the short term and looks forward to working with Senator Ernst and her colleagues to address this critical issue. The Biden administration has failed to adequately address the bird flu, and his inflationary economic policy will only make the problem worse Americans. People deserve affordable eggs, and Secretary Rollins is completely committed to taking positive action to fight the bird flu and helping to lower the price of eggs she works with the White House.”
Kristen Altus of Fox News Digital contributes to this report
