Livestock Board New Mexico

Livestock Board New Mexico, a state government entity subordinate to the State of New Mexico, acts as a federal grant recipient under the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), delivering animal disease surveillance, livestock traceability, and emergency disease-response coordination work across New Mexico in support of national agricultural biosecurity.

Livestock Board New Mexico is a child agency of the State of New Mexico, headquartered in Albuquerque, and operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint. The organization receives cooperative agreements exclusively from USDA APHIS Veterinary Services (VS) to execute state-level animal health programs aligned with federal livestock disease control and traceability mandates.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on four recurring grant-funded work streams: (1) animal disease surveillance and epidemiological investigation, including bovine tuberculosis testing, avian influenza monitoring, and foreign animal disease (FAD) investigations conducted in coordination with federal veterinary medical officers; (2) livestock identification and traceability enhancement via RFID tag distribution and electronic Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) processing to support the USDA Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) rule; (3) poultry-program oversight and outreach, including National Poultry Improvement Program inspections and stakeholder engagement for backyard and commercial producers; and (4) emergency disease response, exemplified by the 2024 highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak response agreement that funded state responder overtime, personal protective equipment, quarantine enforcement, biosecurity monitoring, and carcass-disposal logistics. A 2026 award (ultimate completion March 31, 2027) tasked the Board to distribute 54,000 remaining RFID tags to livestock markets and veterinarians, process approximately 300 paper ICVIs monthly, and transition to a fully electronic CVI system by calendar year-end 2026.

Customer concentration is absolute: all 38 awards in the recent footprint derive from USDA APHIS, with no diversification across agencies or customer bases. Combined obligated dollars total $2.6 million across the award portfolio. Activity has remained flat — two awards in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 — with two awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. All awards are structured as no-subrecipient cooperative agreements, meaning Livestock Board New Mexico executes the entire scope in-house using its field veterinarians, disease investigators, and administrative staff rather than passing work to subordinate recipients.