Arizona is home to a wide variety of agricultural commodities including beef COW-calf and feedlot operations, dairies, commercial layer operations, commercial swine grower operations, aquaculture…

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025), provides $117,078 to the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) to support regulatory enforcement, disease surveillance, and response activities for Arizona's agricultural commodities.

The funded activities will include sample collection for active and passive surveillance, reporting, training, preparedness and response, and public outreach and engagement across commodity groups such as beef, dairy, poultry, swine, aquaculture, and equine. These efforts aim to safeguard Arizona's agriculture and agricultural commerce, with benefits extending to local, county, and tribal stakeholders as well as producers in states engaged in agricultural trade with Arizona. The award period runs from Apr 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2026, and there are no sub-awards planned under this Cooperative Agreement.

Arizona is home to a wide variety of agricultural commodities including beef COW-calf and feedlot operations, dairies, commercial layer operations, commercial swine grower operations, aquaculture facilities, and a robust equine industry. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to help fund azda activities related to regulatory enforcement, program disease and foreign animal disease (FAD) surveillance and response activities, in order to safeguard arizona agriculture and agricultural commerce. Activities will include sample collection for active and passive surveillance, reporting, training, preparedness and response, and public outreach and engagement, which are outlined per commodity group. Goals of this award include meeting cooperative agreement standards and objectives of proposed activities, such as those activities mentioned above. Progress will be reported quarterly via quarterly reports submitted to the VS program manager and uploaded into ezfedgrants. Benefits of this cooperative agreement extend beyond the azda to benefit local/county/tribal stakeholders and producers of arizona, as well as those of states that engage in agricultural commerce with arizona. This award will not result in sub-awards.