To conduct animal disease traceability activities that will provide specific information to the recipient, aphis, and other interested parties for various commodities under animal disease traceability…

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 program (CFDA 10.025) provides $167,737 to the Missouri Department of Agriculture to conduct animal disease traceability activities. The activities will involve providing and applying animal identification information, entering and tracking data in databases, and performing timely traceability during disease tracking exercises or real-life situations. The intended beneficiaries are the Missouri livestock and poultry industry, producers, APHIS, and the broader U.S. agricultural sector to help maintain a secure domestic food supply and enable international trade. No sub-recipient activities were noted.

Activities

Provide and apply animal identification information to producers, enter and track in databases and to conduct traceability in a timely manner during an exercise or in real-life disease tracking. Deliverables and expected outcomes: conduct animal traceability in a timely and effective manner.

Intended beneficiaries

Missouri livestock and poultry commercial industry, livestock/poultry growers and producers, aphis, and the entire U.S. Agriculture industry to maintain a secure domestic food supply and international trade.

Subrecipient activities

None known