Some Minnesota turkey farms have installed lasers with birds, similar to those used at airports, at a cost of around $ 40,000 per barn, Kohls said.
“We prefer to prevent the disease rather than responding to it,” she said.
Until now, the ordeal of the management of the propagation of the virus depicts a farm, even if it has only been found in a barn, said Shauna Voss, deputy director of the Board of Animal Health in Minnesota. After that, there are around forty before more birds can be brought back.
Voss said that Minnesota poultry herds will always be at high risk until “snow begins to fly”.
The industry wants more solutions to the virus officially known as the highly pathogenic avian flu.
“The silver ball of” Here is the problem, here is how to solve it “is still there. We must find it,” said Sherman Miller, CEO of the largest egg company in the country, Cal-Maine Foods, during a call with investors on October 1.
