The 2025 wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection hpai emergency cooperative agreement funding will contribute to payment for unexpected costs arising from the disease…

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the Trade and Consumer Protection Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Management Services Division a Cooperative Agreement totaling $253,849 on September 24, 2025, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025).

The funding covers unexpected costs arising from Wisconsin's highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak response that began in September 2025. Deliverables include state responder overtime, personnel travel and lodging expenses, personal protective equipment and disposable disease response supplies, equipment, and contractor support. Wisconsin responders conduct quarantine issuance and notification, disease surveillance in control areas and surveillance zones, biosecurity monitoring on infected premises, monitoring of infected poultry euthanasia and carcass disposal, cleaning and disinfection monitoring, permit approval for movement of feed and supplies into or out of control areas, stakeholder outreach, investigation of sick bird calls, environmental sampling, real-time disease response reporting, and incident document management. Expected outcomes include facilitating timely return to normal poultry production and trade within Wisconsin and with other states, promoting robust biosecurity to minimize further HPAI transmission, enabling infected premises to resume production at the earliest opportunity, maintaining stakeholder and consumer outreach, and sustaining surveillance and investigation capabilities for early detection should HPAI re-emerge.

Performance period runs through September 23, 2026, with all work performed in Wisconsin.

The 2025 wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection hpai emergency cooperative agreement funding will contribute to payment for unexpected costs arising from the disease response to the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in wisconsin that began in september, 2025. These costs included state responder overtime, personnel travel and lodging expenses, personal protection equipment (PPE) and other disposable disease response supplies, supplies and equipment to respond, as well as contractors to assist with the work. Activities to be performed: activities performed by wisconsin responders include issuance and notification of state's quarantines; disease surveillance in control areas and surveillance zones; monitoring of biosecurity on infected premises; monitoring of euthanasia of infected poultry and disposal of carcasses; monitoring of cleaning and disinfection (c & d) of infected premises; approval of permits for movement of feed, supplies and products into or out of control areas; stakeholder outreach; response to sick bird calls; environmental sampling; real time reporting of disease response status; data entry and incident document management. Deliverables and expected outcomes: cooperator activities will facilitate a timely return to normal poultry production/ trade within the state and with other state trading partners to the extent possible under the circumstances; encourages and monitors robust biosecurity of production facilities to minimize further transmission of hpai; facilitates return to production by infected premises at the earliest possible opportunity; maintains outreach and education to stakeholders and consumers; and maintains hpai surveillance and investigation of suspicious sick bird calls to allow earliest detection should hpai RE-emerge or be RE-introduced. Intended beneficiary(IES): rapid and effective response to hpai outbreak in wisconsin minimizes further transmission of disease to other premises and minimizes the impact, to the extent possible, to agriculture trade within wisconsin and with other states. This benefits the wisconsin poultry industry, as well as consumers, who continue to have access to poultry and poultry products produced within the state. Subrecipient activities if known or specified at the time of the award: n/a