A southeast Iowa turkey producer says the need for biosecurity is at an all-time high as more cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza are popping up across the country.

Tim Meyer raises 60,000 turkeys per year in Henry County. “It’s brought in by foot or brought in by a tire or a wheel or something like that. Typically, it’s not a bird to bird contact, it has to do with feces and then moving into the building that’s carried in.”

He tells Brownfield clean clothing for disinfected facilities is key.

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