The Agriculture Department on Wednesday said it will spend $1 billion to tackle the bird flu in a campaign to address soaring egg prices that appears, in a departure for the administration, to ...

Grocery shoppers have been forced to scramble since egg prices have been consistently high. With the cost of Grade A eggs hitting a record high of $5.90 per dozen in February, many consumers have had ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday it plans to spend up to $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funds to try to reduce the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza in ...