Bird flu worries still haunt producers as they spend money to prevent it

Last year at this time, Minnesota turkey growers were in the middle of a full-blown disaster, the likes of which they’d never seen.

Between March 4 and June 5, the highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu claimed about 5 million turkeys and 4 million egg-laying chickens on more than 100 farms in the state. Minnesota, the nation’s No. 1 turkey producer, lost 10 percent of its production.

This year? Nothing.

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