Max Armstrong reports that avian influenza is starting to impact U.S. exports. A growing list of countries are banning imports of U.S. poultry due to high pathogenic avian influenza. Max shares key details about the quick-spreading disease that has spread around the country. Farmers and veterinarians take the disease seriously because it is often fatal to birds. Max adds that there is no risk to consumers.

Max Armstrong's Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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