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Cases of eggs from Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., await to be handed out by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce employees at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 7, 2020. The largest producer of fresh eggs in the United States said Tuesday, April 2, 2024 that it has stopped production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens there. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at the facility in Parmer County, Texas. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

Largest U.S. fresh egg producer finds bird flu in chickens at Texas, Michigan plants

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Chickens stand in their cage at the Rose Acre Farms, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, near Stuart, Iowa. An Illinois jury ruled Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023, that several major egg producers, including Rose Acre Farms, conspired to limit the U.S.'s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a lawsuit first filed 12 years ago. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

U.S. egg producers conspired to fix prices from 2004 to 2008, a federal jury ruled this week

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Cal-Maine completes purchase of egg farms

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