Wyoming Livestock Board

Wyoming Livestock Board Livestock Board Division, a state government entity based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a federal grant recipient that conducts livestock disease surveillance, emergency response coordination, and animal health program support for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under cooperative agreements. The organization operates as a prime recipient on all of its federal awards (98% of recent grants) and does not hold prime federal contracts or IDVs.

The Livestock Board's federal footprint is concentrated entirely within APHIS, which accounts for 43 of its 45 total awards across the source data span dating to 2003. Recent cooperative agreement work centers on collaborative disease surveillance and control for livestock diseases of concern across Wyoming's cattle, swine, equine, cervid, and small ruminant sectors. Representative awards include a $216,773 cooperative agreement (CFDA 10.025, Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program) effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026, for disease surveillance and control activities; a $125,000 award under the same program supporting USDA disease traceability requirements through livestock electronic identification system management and data transfer; and a cooperative agreement awarded February 17, 2025 to fund emergency response costs for dairy highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak response in Wyoming. The Livestock Board has also received recurring awards for brucellosis surveillance and testing of cattle and bison in designated surveillance areas, with prior-year work targeting 40,500 brucellosis tests across Wyoming herds.

The Livestock Board serves in a subgrantee role on one award as of the source date: a Colorado State University-led grant (sub-award effective November 6, 2024) that funds the Livestock Board's Animal Health agency to develop tailored poultry health educational materials, conduct training sessions in small-flock communities across the tri-state region including underserved and tribal areas, and establish community networks for disease information dissemination.

Activity shows annual award issuance of one to three grants per year; one award reaches completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore faces potential recompete. The Livestock Board's combined obligated dollars across all awards total $7.5 million against a combined potential value of $3 thousand, reflecting the historical accumulation of obligations across decades of cooperative agreement renewals. APHIS is the sole active customer agency.