North Carolina’s top agriculture leader is weighing in on the national debate over the safety of raw milk. Department of ...

Banning the direct sale of raw milk to the public for animal consumption is included in legislation approved a committee in the North Carolina Senate on ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

North Carolina’s Farm Act is usually about ... Thanks to the risk of avian influenza in dairy herds, it suddenly became one. With his backing, the first version of this year’s Farm Act ...

In North Carolina alone, the virus has resulted in the loss of millions of birds on poultry farms. Meanwhile, less than a year after avian flu was first detected in dairy herds, a new strain of the ...

By Dr. Mike Walden Price inflation was one of the top issues in the 2024 presidential election. People were tired of seeing big price jumps, especially if those increases were more than their income ...

Four commercial flocks in Adair County were affected by avian flu near the end of last year, but those operations have resumed more normal day-to-day routines, the state veterinarian says.

Recently, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a small poultry flock in Kings ...