Continue to provide monitoring, surveillance, and emergency disease response planning activities to help prevent and control the spread of disease in livestock and poultry in the state of nebraska

Through this agreement, the state will carry out routine testing of poultry, cattle, swine, sheep, cervids, goats, and equine with the purpose program disease surveillance. This agreement will also be used to carry out zoonotic and foreign animal disease investigations as needed throughout as well as develop and exercise state specific emergency response plans to help prepare and educate producers and the public. The state will continue to use this agreement to support one health partners within nebraska. Use of this agreement will aid the state in prevention and control of regulated diseases, as well as maintaining disease free status. Additionally, this agreement will produce working plans that will mitigate the risk of a foreign animal disease introduction to the state of nebraska. The benefactors of this agreement are the common shareholders of the state of nebraska livestock producers and the general public. By maintaining nebraska's disease-free status and preventing the introduction of foreign animal disease in the state, we improve the marketability of the state's livestock and livestock products. There are no subrecipients on this cooperative agreement at this time.