USDA is working to get more eggs into the supply chain in the short-term, but U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says a team is focused on coming up with a long-term strategy to combat avian flu.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the USDA will unveil the department’s plans to address highly pathogenic avian influenza this week. She tells Brownfield it will be a multi-pronged approach.

On her first day on the job last week, new US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins held a meeting to review the agency’s options for controlling the bird flu outbreak and possibly help lower the price of eggs.

Pictured: Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins (left) interviews with Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner at a weekend event in Kentucky in February 2025. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration is prioritizing a long-term solution for highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Farmers from Pennsylvania and Delaware said they were impressed after a meeting with new Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins that focused on avian influenza and USDA funding.

The Trump administration plans to make vaccines a central part of its strategy to control  bird flu, even as farm industry groups remain divided on whether that’s the best way to go.

Spearheaded by National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, the plan prioritizes enhanced biosecurity measures and medication to control the spread of the virus and moves away from mass culling of infected flocks.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is expected “in the coming days” to announce a new strategy to fight the escalating outbreak.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan for combatting avian flu that will move away from depopulating infected flocks and rely instead on “biosecurity and medication,” says President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser.

Brooke Rollins kicked off her tenure at USDA by cutting back department spending — and eliminating thousands of staff. — Rollins is also looking at “new tools” to combat avian influenza as ...

USDA said it's trying to rescind the firings this weekend of several employees who had worked on the bird flu.