Department Of Agriculture Minnesota

The Department Of Agriculture Minnesota, Board Of Animal Health, a U.S. state government entity based in St. Paul, operates as a federal grant recipient under cooperative agreements with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), delivering animal health surveillance, disease diagnostics, emergency response, and animal traceability services across Minnesota's livestock and poultry industries.

The Board of Animal Health holds 98 cooperative agreement awards (99% of its recent federal footprint) directly from APHIS under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025), with one sub-award role under an Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 grant administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The APHIS cooperative agreements span avian health surveillance and diagnostics, swine health monitoring and feral swine elimination, cattle tuberculosis testing oversight, animal disease traceability enhancement via RFID tag distribution and electronic certificate systems, chronic wasting disease (CWD) management in farmed cervids, and emergency response funding for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and dairy HPAI outbreaks. Recent representative awards include a $419,034.60 cooperative agreement effective April 2026 through March 2027 supporting comprehensive animal health surveillance with annual deliverables of approximately 42,000 ELISA tests, 3,750 PCR tests, and 300 AGID tests for avian health, plus swine and cattle monitoring across licensed garbage-feeding premises, poultry biosecurity audits, and tuberculosis test rate assessments; a $511,400 emergency funding cooperative agreement awarded October 2025 covering unanticipated state responder overtime, travel, personal protective equipment, and National Animal Health Laboratory Network lab costs from the September 2025 HPAI outbreak response; and a $131,348 animal disease traceability award effective April 2026 through March 2027 for RFID tag distribution (approximately 10,000 tags annually), electronic Certificate of Veterinary Inspection processing (approximately 15,000 annually), and stakeholder outreach on traceability systems.

APHIS concentration is absolute: 98 awards of the 99 total represent state-federal cooperative relationships around animal disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, and interstate commerce protection. Combined potential value across all recent awards totals $26.9 million obligated, with activity relatively flat over the past five years (6 awards in 2022 down to 3 by 2026 year-to-date). Seven awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, representing a modest recompete window. The Board of Animal Health does not hold prime federal contracts or seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based, delivered through direct state personnel and infrastructure aligned with USDA regulatory and programmatic guidelines.