U.S. trade officials are urgently seeking an agreement with South Korea to allow imports of American eggs. South Korea is facing a shortage caused by the Asian country’s worst ever outbreak of bird flu. National Association of Egg Farmers President Ken Klippen says getting that market open would be helpful.
Klippen says having markets open for export is important to the U.S. egg industry.
Klippen says the U.S. poultry industry has recovered from its own bird flu outbreak two years ago and is hoping to keep that disease away.
About 26 million birds, more than a quarter of South Korea’s poultry stock, have been culled to control the avian influenza outbreak, and most of those birds have been egg laying hens.
