The purpose of the FY25 cooperative agreement between oregon department of agriculture and united states department of agriculture is to continue and advance animal disease surveillance and…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded the Oregon Department of Agriculture a $198,764 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) for the period April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026. The agreement supports comprehensive animal disease surveillance, investigation, and emergency response activities across multiple livestock and poultry sectors. Key deliverables include active and passive surveillance of poultry flocks under the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), avian influenza testing, biosecurity inspections of commercial facilities, tuberculosis eradication efforts for cattle, support for bovine spongiform encephalopathy sampling and investigations, and scrapie eradication programs for sheep, goats, cervids, and equines.

Additionally, the agreement encompasses cross-sector zoonotic disease surveillance and response coordination through One Health multiagency initiatives, including investigation of atypical canine respiratory cases. The Oregon Department of Agriculture will maintain emergency preparedness and depopulation supplies, conduct outreach and training programs, facilitate emergency preparedness workshops, complete monthly disease reporting through the National Animal Health Reporting System, and support foreign animal disease investigation and control activities. These integrated services advance the APHIS mission to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious animal diseases and pests while ensuring appropriate emergency response capabilities.

The purpose of the FY25 cooperative agreement between oregon department of agriculture and united states department of agriculture is to continue and advance animal disease surveillance and eradication, investigate suspect cases of animal health and zoonotic disease, and respond to outbreaks and emergencies. Activities to be performed - avian health - conduct active and passive surveillance of national poultry improvement plan (npip) and non-national poultry improvement plan flocks for avian health diseases. Biosecurity inspections and audits of commercial facilities. Administer national poultry improvement plan testing and avian influenza testing for surveillance and sick bird reports. Maintain poultry depopulation and emergency response supplies. Cattle health - administer tuberculosis eradication program. Assist in the national bovine spongiform encephalopathy sampling plan. Support epidemiological investigations for tuberculosis and brucellosis cases. Conduct outreach and training for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, bovine tuberculosis, and bovine brucellosis programs. Complete monthly national list of reportable animal diseases - national animal health reporting system reports. Facilitate emergency preparedness workshops. Investigate and control foreign animal diseases. One health - engage in multiagency communication and assessments for cross-sector zoonotic disease surveillance, preparedness and response plans. Support zoonotic disease outbreak investigations. Provide outreach and education to the public and one health partners. Continue multi-agency investigation into atypical canine respiratory cases. Sheep goat cervid equine health -support the scrapie eradication program through regulatory scrapie slaughter surveillance assistance, investigating suspected cases of scrapie, and providing outreach and education. Support identification compliance at livestock markets and assist with scrapie tag orders. Conduct suspect and trace investigations. Swine health - support swine pseudorabies, swine brucellosis, african swine fever/classical swine fever and tuberculosis investigations. Investigate illegal garbage feeding activities. Enhance state disease reporting requirements to include and report all national list of reportable animal diseases. Advance relationships with swine producer organizations. Participate in US-swine health improvement plan pilot project. Maintain and develop response plans for swine diseases, including african swine fever. Deliverables and expected outcomes - avian health - facilitate and conduct avian influenza surveillance testing in commercial and backyard flocks. Identify and respond to avian influenza and virulent newcastle disease. Increase levels of avian influenza/virulent newcastle disease awareness and biosecurity for producers of small and large flocks. Provide support to national poultry improvement plan flocks for certification of movement of product. Provide outreach materials to farm stores and poultry extension coordinators. Conduct one (1) high path avian influenza tabletop exercise. Conduct epidemiological investigations. Conduct and facilitate personnel training. Cattle health - monitor tuberculosis responder rate among accredited veterinarians. Conduct outreach to veterinarians about tuberculosis performance standards. Collect tuberculosis and bovine spongiform encephalopathy samples at state-slaughter facilities. Conduct outreach for brucellosis surveillance testing. Assist in market cattle identification traces and brucellosis epidemiologist investigations. Train two new district veterinarians to conduct foreign animal disease investigations. Provide one (1) in-service training focused on emergency response for cattle diseases. One health - develop and provide outreach materials to the public and one health partners about zoonotic disease and one health concerns. Provide biosecurity materials to pet and livestock owners. Develop a centralized animal disease reporting system accessible to one health partners. Investigate and respond to suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus cases in animals. Provide one (1) in-service training focused on one health disease response. Provide testing of poultry involved with human salmonella cases. Provide respiratory fit testing to animal disease responders. Sheep goat cervid equine health - enforce scrapie identification requirements. Assist with scrapie surveillance sampling and scrapie tag orders. Provide outreach to sheep and goat producers and accredited veterinarians. Attend state producer association meeting. Expand disease response capabilities and investigate reportable disease in sheep, goats, cervids and equines. Swine health - attend US-swine health improvement plan conference and pilot US-swine health improvement plan project. Provide education and outreach at pork producer meetings. Expand biosecurity resources for pork producers. Conduct an african swine fever response exercise. Results will be documented in quarterly reports to the program manager. Intended beneficiaries - stakeholder groups, producers, agency partners, accredited veterinarians and the public. Subrecipient activities - not applicable