(NAFB.com) – Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a $1 billion comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza, protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices. This is in addition to funding already being provided to indemnify growers for depopulated flocks. As the Secretary outlined in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, she has a five-pronged strategy that includes an additional $500 million for biosecurity measures, $400 million in financial relief for affected farmers, and $100 million for vaccine research, action to reduce regulatory burdens and explore temporary import options. “The Biden administration did little to address the repeated outbreaks and high egg prices that followed,” the Secretary said. “The Trump administration is taking the issue seriously. American farmers need relief, and American consumers need affordable food.” Rollins also said, “To every family struggling to buy eggs, we hear you, we’re fighting for you, and help is on the way.”