Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...

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Lancaster County, the leading poultry producer in Pennsylvania, sits at the epicenter of the latest national outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. The U.S.