Friend of mine has 130 head of Herefords, he's the kind of person who doesn't respond well to strangers coming onto the ranch.

It must be a regional thing because I've never seen it. We also don't have poultry farms here though so that would likely play a big factor in it.

The weirdest thing they have in the commodities sheds around here is the leftovers from chocolate processing.

Well... since, as you said, it's spread by migratory birds, and those birds migrate, I'm gonna guess that migratory birds is how it got here.

I guess you could be hinting that the .gov goes from state to state spreading it on purpose, but I think that's a 0% chance. All they have to is, wait for it... infect some migratory birds and let them do it.

Not useless. Used against us.

Stop being poor and support the site?

More likely resisting farms would start suddenly "going up in flames" like Waco.

Good, even if it’s a little weak. They’re trying to take our liberty and starve us. Way past time to start acting like it.

Not regional because I've never seen it either. Probably been watching his FIL spread it as fertilizer and misunderstood thinking he was feeding it to them. Or his FIL is a POS and shouldn't be around animals.

They're trying to starve us? The USDA has a 230 billion dollar budget last year. Farms of all sizes around here are getting all kinds of reimbursements for new projects from both USDA and NRCS.

Bingo!

They’ve been euthanizing herds that were not sick.

This guy is a real farmer. He gets it.

Starting Wednesday on May 8, a state emergency order will go into effect in Michigan in an effort to limit the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

While it's not impacting people yet, HPAI's toll on the state's economy as well as its operations for supplying eggs and meat has taken a hit. Left unchecked, the director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development warns issues could only intensify.

"Michigan's been in the unique position of dealing with a pretty significant HPAI outbreak both in a number of fair herds here in the state, but a number of poultry operations as well - some commercial egg laying facilities, some turkey farms," said Director Tim Boring.

Normally, mid-spring issues that farmers manage are normally related to the weather and too much rain - or cold nights freezing crops. But this year, it's the bird flu.

"Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been around the country for a couple of years now, but what makes this latest outbreak really significant is the fact it is now very prevalent in dairy cattle across the country," Boring said.

In Michigan, farmers are struggling as their operations are limited and animals suffer after getting infected with the latest strain of HPAI.

To quell the spread, state officials will execute an emergency order that will deploy biosecurity measures while tracking people on site of vulnerable farms.

"We continue to know that this virus is spread through people and vehicle movement, so we’ve called on poultry and dairy facilities across the state to be implementing some essential bio-security practices for the cleaning and disinfecting, tracking who is on facilities, identification of a biosecurity manager," said Boring.

It will also impact what fair season looks like this summer in Michigan, Boring said.

"We’re looking to halt poultry exhibitions until we have had a negative test in the state for 30 days. And we’re placing restrictions on bringing lactating dairy cattle to the fair," he added.

Notably, the director said, its not a public health problem - yet.

"Pasteurization remains an effective treatment to limit the virus spread into milk. Humans are not getting sick from this virus, outside of one farmworker in Texas.," said Boring.

Additional state efforts will work to pin down just what kind of impact the outbreak will have on Michigan farmers.

You need to go to your handlers and ask for an immediate extraction , your cover is blown.

Maybe the dairy farmers need to make friends with the hog farmers

I've been dead since the "winter of death"

You .gov lovers should know better by now. JFC how stupid can anyone be at this point.

That's kinda where I'm at.  

If everyone's livestock dropped dead you know damn well they'd all have their hand out.

How many of these operations are damn near wholly subsidized by fed money?

Someone posted a video on here about a small farm in WA state that had their entire flock culled because some migratory birds infected them. From what I remember all it takes is migratory birds flying overhead and dropping bird bombs to contaminate an area.

I am sure it is duly noted and we have been reported as non conformists.

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HERD

Pigs need to eat.

On par with all of his posts

Really?

Because the feds are the ones looking to create a panic and potential food shortage during an election year.

Why the fuck is the CDC getting involved in something the local agri departments are responsible for? It ain’t in their purview, and they damn sure aren’t just “tracking transmission.”

Anytime the feds get involved, they fuck shit up, through either incompetence or malice.

Feeding poultry litter to cattle isn't new. Dairy cattle, not so much, because they get higher quality rations. But, certainly nothing new about feeding litter to cattle.

You're from Alabama and think it doesn't happen just because you've never seen it? Sometimes we don't know what we don't know:

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I have no doubt that the feds will mandate new voting rules due to the spread of the bird flu. I'm not sure what they could be . . . since mail-in seems to start about four years before an election, no ID is needed, and ballot harvesting is really helpful when dealing with homeless folk and people in Alzheimer wards.

Maybe they'll just make sure that ballots only include Democratic candidates

This. The Government has earned our complete absence of trust—1000 times over.

Broken trust results in more people saying fuck off.

Yep.

full stop

H5N1 is not containable. It is being spread by wild birds that move and shit by will.

Cows on the other hand are stuck on a ranch / farm, most in pens. They aren't going anywhere and are not spreading anything.

The dude on the farm that got H5N1 from a cow got pink eye, was given an anti-viral and fully recovered.

People get pink eye from flu all the time, I have had it myself several times, but not from cows.

Take care in handling raw beef, chicken, and eggs. Cook them through, and H5N1 is not a problem in the food supply.

Most of the budget goes to SNAP and other food and nutrition assistance for the people that don't pay taxes.  Was about 80%, feel free to do this years math.

https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-agriculture?fy=2024

Very little .gov money in cattle, that goes to farmers not ranchers.

Totally not common.  It's been at least two weeks since a guy in my office stayed out for flu symptoms including pink eye.  Team of eight usually.

People are retarded.  The CDC is just trying to freak people out.

almost a "tragedy"

What are the risks of bird flu in meat? Why are we so concerned about this in the first place?

I assumed that was happening, but from what I read it's not.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/just-one-human-infected-bird-121130918.html

You mean farmers are against killing off the entire herd/flock because an animal three counties over tested positive? I am shocked!

If only the CDC and federal government hadn't tarnished their reputation because Orange Man bad people might take them seriously.  I was talking about this with co-workers yesterday on the way to lunch, none of them gave a fuck.

It's common.
https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g2077

@GLOCK63

Goes to test farms for flu

Won't go to border to test for anything


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Sure,or they can wipe out those sectors on their own. What world have you lived in the past 5 years. I guess you dont have kids.

So what? You can’t eat dollars. That just increases inflation and reduces meat supply at times of record shortage and cost. The USDA has far more people on their payroll than there are farmers in the country. That doesn’t mean there’s not an attack our food supply. TPTB have gone after fertilizer and call it helpful. They’re using the fraudulently amplified PCR test to look for fragments of disease in the runoff of cattle ranches where farmers don’t want them on the property. If you haven’t been paying attention, there is a huge push against beef in this country. There are very few independent suppliers and TPTB work to push them out constantly. I think there are only three major companies that produce beef. They are all suspect for one reason or another. Unclean conditions, mRNA injections, unknown flavor enhancers, unhealthy grain finishing, all kinds of unhealthy and unnecessary trouble. At this point, I think it’s not hard to make the argument mRNA is a bio weapon designed to kill us.

We own two farms. Fairly diverse. Irrigated, dryland, cattle grazing land and CRP. no dairy or poultry, but a wide variety of crops rotating out, often what the scam of the year is. There has been a recent push to regenerative soil through cover crops I guess but it’s long overdue. That’s all up to the farmers and my wife. The land has been in her family for generations. I’ve seen firsthand just tell bureaucratic and wasteful the USDA can be. There’s some nice and helpful people in the local offices, but it’s as unaccountable as any government agency.

The FDA, USDA and CDC are no longer looking out for us. They have become a gloved hand of the tyrant, trying to control our lives in every way under the guise of safety and health. Every time I hear about a new food safety issue, wastewater testing, or rare fires that have burned multiple food processing facilities, despite them having redundant sprinklers, alarms, and compartmentalized areas to halt the spread of fire I am increasingly reminded of how Stalin weaponized food, or the lack thereof to kill tens of millions of people.

In this story alone millions of birds were slaughtered because they say one was infected. They don’t specify what testing protocol was used, but anything using PCR should be immediately suspect. It was a brilliant discovery but the inventor Kary Mullis has made multiple videos talking about how it was abused before he died just before the plandemic.

Not in dairy cows it shouldn't be.
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"Litter should not be fed to lactating dairy cows, because there is no opportunity for a withdrawal period to ensure the elimination of residues from milk."

I've worked feedlots with 1200 head in them and not once did we feed chickenshit to any of our animals. I understand the practice has been in place since the 70s but it sounds like shit animal husbandry to me. I guess if your goal is the production of select grade beef for dogfood then so be it.
In any case, if regulations are followed, than its a non-issue in beef cattle. However, if you're willing to feed avian waste to your animals, maybe regulations don't matter much either.  
The problem of any solution to bird flu transmission, being a real threat or not, is severely hampered by mistrust in any government entity at this point because of past performance, especially the CDC.  I can't even think of a situation that would allow them to get any credibility back at this point.

I wonder if Argentinian ranchers feed poop to their cows?  

About the closest I can think is chicken manure as pasture fertilizer that cattle might graze on.  That's a long way from feeding shit directly to cows, as that poster said.

HERD!

birds arent real so its obvious bird flu is another massive government project with unknown evil designs. the government prolly just wants to get access to all those cattle to murder them in order to expedite one of the green new deal objectives where we all eat bugs.

How are they trying to starve us then? That's a big budget to feed people.

It sounds like a big budget to buy welfare votes.

Look at the farmer protests in Europe and also what's going on in Canada. There's a definite war on agriculture and particularly livestock. It's more advanced in Europe (like most bad things) but they will bring it here.