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In this photo is a flock of turkeys at a Minnesota poultry farm. The country's poultry industry may have to live with a deadly bird flu strain for several years the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief veterinary officer said April 16 on a visit to Minnesota, the state hit hardest by outbreaks that have cost Midwest producers over two million turkeys and chickens.
Bird flu confirmed at farm in Iowa
DAVID PITT Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Up to 5.3 million hens at an Iowa farm must be destroyed after the highly infectious and deadly bird flu virus was confirmed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.
The farm in northwest Iowa's Osceola County has nearly 10 percent of the state's egg-laying hens. Iowa is home to roughly 59 million hens that lay nearly one in every five eggs consumed in the country.
Egg industry marketing experts say it's too early to predict the impact on prices, but say it's unlikely to immediately cause a spike or a shortage, because number of chickens that are to be euthanized is a little more than 1 percent of the nation's egg layers.
"Don't panic," poultry industry consultant Simon Shane said. "Let's wait and see."
If the disease keeps spreading and 20 million to 30 million hens are infected, consumers could start seeing prices rise, said Shane, who also an adjunct professor of poultry science and veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University.
Several Midwestern states have been affected by the outbreaks, costing turkey and chicken producers nearly 7.8 million birds since March.
the virus was first detected in Minnesota, the country's top turkey-producing state, in early March and the H5N2 virus has since shown up on commercial farms in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. On Monday, the virus was confirmed in another turkey farm in Minnesota and a backyard flock of
mixed birds in Wisconsin.
The Osceola County farm experienced a high number of chicken deaths and sent samples to a USDA lab at Iowa State University for confirmation. It's the first chicken farm in Iowa to be affected by the virus, which was confirmed at a turkey farm in the state last week.
The chickens at the large
farm reside in more than 20 houses, said Dustin Vande Hoef, a spokesman for Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey.
"It's a huge challenge for this producer and highlights the importance of biosecurity and other producers trying to take steps to limit the spread of this disease," he said.
Vande Hoef said there is no
food safety risk.
The Center for Disease Control and the Iowa Department of Public Health considers the risk to people from these infections in wild birds, backyard flocks and commercial poultry, to be low. No human infections with the virus have ever been detected.
Kansas cuts forecast for taxes by $187M
JOHN HANNA Associated Press
Kansas officials on Monday cut their projections for tax collections from now through June 2016 by $187 million, which will force Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators to consider larger tax increases to balance the budget.
The new forecast also reduced the official projection for total tax collections in the fiscal year beginning in July 2016 by $88 million, or
State officials, legislative researchers and university economists issued a new fiscal forecast, revising one made in November. The Republican governor and GOP-dominated Legislature must use the new, more pessimistic projections in finishing work on a proposed state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The forecasters reduced the estimate for total tax collections for the current fiscal year by nearly $88 million, or 1.5 percent, to about $5.7 billion. They also cut the tax estimate for the next fiscal year by nearly $100 million, or 1.7 percent, also making it almost $5.9 billion.
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about 1.4 percent, making it about $6 billion.
before the new forecast, top Republican legislators had been working on budget proposals requiring general tax increases of about $150 million a year.
The state's budget problems arose after Brownback successfully pushed legislators in 2012 and 2013 to slash personal income taxes in an effort to stimulate the economy. The state cut its top rate by 29 percent and exempted 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers from income taxes altogether.
Brownback has not backed off those policies, though he's proposed slowing down future personal income tax cuts. He's also pushing to raise alcohol and tobacco taxes and has said he's open to boosting the state's sales tax.
Legislators are scheduled to reconvene April 29 to wrap up business for the year.
Before the new forecast, tax collections for the current fiscal year, through March, were $43 million less than anticipated, a shortfall of about 1.2 percent.
CORRECTION
The article "Professors weigh in on Kansas' new EPA regulations" that was printed in The University Daily Kansan on Wednesday, April 15, incorrectly referred to restrictions on carbon monoxide, and should have referred to restrictions on carbon dioxide. The regulations will reduce carbon dioxide emissions, not carbon monoxide.
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