Brookings company looks to build bird flu vaccine

By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight
May 1, 2023
May 1, 2023

Poultry - Pease Creek (13).JPG — Cornell Hofer holds a turkey pullet. This is the first set of poults Hofer and Pease Creek Colony has gotten in after having to cull their entire flock due to avian flu in November 2022.
Tri-State Neighbor photos by Melisa Goss

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By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight

A Brookings company hopes a flu vaccine for turkeys might eventually help protect multiple species from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza strains like H5N1, which has wreaked havoc on the poultry industry for the past two years.

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Prairie AquaTech CEO Mark Luecke talks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the company's plant in Volga, S.D., this past May.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Jager Robinson

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Dakota Layers will start growing its own birds in newly constructed pullet barns. The company hopes to restock its layer barns in December after its flock was wiped out by bird flu earlier this year.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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