…2011, and one in Tulare County in 2013. No additional herds have been diagnosed with TB. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has completed its review of California’s…
Agri View: Fire Ant Problem
…instances of anaphylactic shock in humans. APHIS works to prevent artificial (human assisted) spread of IFA by enforcing the Federal Quarantine (7 CFR 301.81) and works with State cooperators to…
Protecting California Citrus With Natural Enemies
…ACP (nymphs). With support from CDFA,USDA-APHIS and USDA -MAC, these two parasitoids have been released into California for biocontrol of ACP with promising initial results, according to Dr. Mark Hoddle,…
Leaders Say Lemon Proposal ‘Defies Logic’
…The United States’ Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) says after completing a comprehensive pest risk analysis which included a visit to Argentina to observe production areas,…
Pork Producers “Fly-In”
…Agricultural Research Service. The organization also wants Congress to appropriate at least $5 million for APHIS to set up an offshore FMD vaccine bank and is requesting that APHIS contract…
Citrus Greening Research Funding
…Group includes representatives from the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), USDA NIFA, USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, Environmental Protection Agency, State Departments of Agriculture from California, Florida, Texas and…
Agri View: Avian Flu…Again?
…Service (APHIS) works to keep avian influenza (AI), a serious poultry disease, from becoming established in the U.S. poultry population. AI viruses can infect chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese…
U.S. Should Be Better Prepared For Pests, Diseases
…from entering the country and devastating U.S. food producers. Accord, who served as APHIS administrator from 2001 to 2004, told the committee’s Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communication that…
USDA Announces $58.25 Million to Protect Ag and Plants from Pests and Diseases
…was reduced by sequestration. The FY 2016 Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill spending plan is available on the APHIS Web site at www.aphis.usda.gov/farmbill. The public can help protect…
Agri View: Avian Flu Recovery
…National Poultry Improvement Plan and how it relates to backyard and hobby poultry owners. It features Healthy Harry, the healthy birds spokesbird, and USDA veterinarian Dr. Chrislyn Wood Nicholson. healthybirds.aphis.usda.gov….
Agri View: Wolves vs. Livestock
Everett Griner talks about wolves continuing being problems for ranchers in today’s Agri View. Wolves, Troublesome Predators Form USDA/APHIS publication: Non-Lethal and Lethal Tools to Manage Wolf-Livestock Conflict in the…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Looks Back at 2015
…and activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack looks back at 2015 and working lands for wildlife. For more information go to: www.usda.gov www.aphis.usda.gov www.fas.usda.gov www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov…
Agri View: War on Feral Hogs!
…to be to put an army together to fight the feral hog problem. War on Feral Hogs! From USDA/APHIS website: Free-ranging populations of feral swine exist in at least 35…
Foot and Mouth Disease
…hit cattle operations with a depopulation only so there’s no emergency vaccination. The cost would be roughly 180 billion dollars. Foot and Mouth Disease Read more on this from USDA/APHIS….