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USDA Compensation to be Increased for HPAI

07/06/2023

Senator’s Chris Coons (D-DE) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) co-chairs of the Senate Chicken Caucus have introduced the bipartisan Poultry Assistance and Indemnification Act supported by eleven other members of the Senate.  The proposed legislation recognizes the costs incurred as a result of emergence of avian influenza in an area, frequently populated by a large number of commercial flocks.

 

The Act would address the needs of growers, flock owners and integrators.  Provisions will include:

 

  • Expanding compensation to all poultry farmers in an HPAI control area.  Farmers that are not directly affected but are restricted through quarantine and other obligations from repopulating farms would be eligible for compensation.

 

  • Indemnity payment would be simplified based on average documented income over the past five unaffected flocks.

 

The proposed legislation recognizes the hardships associated with the 2022 HPAI epornitic including on operations that were not infected but subjected to regulatory oversight as part of a regional control program.