Egg Price Impacts of the 2014-15 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak

Sean E. Ramos, Alex Melton and Matthew MacLachlan

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. April 2018, issue 03

Abstract: Between December 2014 and June 2015, more than 50 million chickens and turkeys in the United States died of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or were destroyed to stop the spread of the disease. ERS researchers recently analyzed the outbreak's impact on egg prices.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302596

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