Chickens, many of them destined for the spit, have vastly outnumbered humans in Nebraska’s Butler County since Costco spent half a billion dollars on poultry production in the state a few years ago. Now that a highly contagious virus called avian flu has infected flocks in the area, neighboring farmers are realizing they may have a Costco problem. “The outbreak is in Costco-sponsored chicken houses, but the consequences of this outbreak will lead to a lot of economic pain for all the farmers involved, including those that have nothing to do with Costco,” said Yolanda Bailey, who runs Fox Run Farms in Brainard, Nebraska, which her family has owned since 1899. A worker wearing a protective mask removes rotisserie chicken from skewers inside a Costco store in San Francisco in March 2021. Bloomberg Last month, more than 500,000 chickens intended for Costco were killed to prevent the killer germ from further ripping through the poultry and egg-laying farms in this rural area northwest of t… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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