This cooperative agreement is directed toward accomplishing the following objectives addressed below: approach for conducting national surveillance and response for animal health activities…

This cooperative agreement is directed toward accomplishing the following objectives addressed below: approach for conducting national surveillance and response for animal health activities including poultry surveillance programs. Provide for poultry flock surveillance, preparedness, response, and outreach necessary to protect american agriculture and accomplish VS mission goals. Prepare, maintain, and exercise state-level plans, standard operating procedures, response templates, and guidance documents for responding to endemic, foreign, zoonotic, and emerging disease or RE-emerging disease events impacting animal agriculture. Provide for monthly preventative maintenance and appropriate equipment training on depopulation equipment to include foamers and CO2 carts. Activities to be performed: goals will be attained by performing non-npip and npip serology and PCR surveillance by maintaining current collection sites and on‐farm surveillance to meet surveillance sampling minimums for georgia poultry flocks. Gpln reports FAD consistent syndromes and ensures that USDA, VS, GA and the GDA saho are aware of the report and subsequent investigation in a timely manner. Gpln will provide surveillance, trace testing, epidemiology, and logistics, reporting and communication, data entry and outreach. Deliverables and expected outcomes: deliverables are products or events to be produced from the cooperative agreement such as reports, educational materials, websites, guidance documents, publications, functional exercises, workshops, online classes, and others. The georgia department of agriculture will continue to support high risk surveillance for swine PRV & brucellosis; and will submit at least 200 samples during the cooperative agreement cycle. Cattle health quarterly accomplishment reports will be submitted. Intended beneficiary(IES): beneficiaries of this agreement include the georgia department of agriculture, the GA poultry federation, the GA poultry industry, the GA poultry producers, and processors. No sub-awards are provided for in the FY 24 GA poultry improvement cooperative agreement.