2018 Farm Bill: Animal Health Programs and Disease Prevention
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2018 Farm Bill Animal Health Components and Process - Ms. Aline DeLucia, Associate Director, Public Policy, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA), from the 2018 NIAA Annual Conference, Livestock Traceability: Opportunities for Animal Agriculture, plus the Traceability and the Real World Interactive Workshop, April 10 - 12, Denver, CO, USA. More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUDeS810OcOfuEYwj1oHKQ
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2018 Farm Bill: Animal Health Programs and Disease Prevention
- 1. 2018 Farm Bill: Animal Health Components and Process 2018 NIAA Annual Conference
- 3. Presentation Summary • NASDA Farm Bill Priorities • 2014 Farm Bill: Animal Agriculture • 2018 Farm Bill: Animal Disease Prevention Program • 2018 Farm Bill Update
- 4. NASDA Farm Bill Priorities • Trade & Export Promotion • Specialty Crop Block Grants • Conservation Programs • Invasive Species • Research, Education and Economics • Food Safety • Animal Disease Prevention
- 5. 2014 Farm Bill: Animal Agriculture • Traditionally don’t rely on farm revenue support programs – authorization of disaster assistance programs • Fed. Government leadership for animal health, trading issues, etc. • Miscellaneous Title of 2014 ▫ 5 provisions addressing Animal Health
- 6. 2014 Animal Health Provisions • National Animal Health Lab. Network (F) • National Poultry Improvement Plan (F) • National Aquatic Animal Health Plan (F) • Trichinae Certification Program (C & F) • Feral Swine Eradication
- 7. Animal Disease Prevention Program: The idea • USDA (APHIS) working cooperatively with state animal health officials need a robust response • Modeled after the successful 10007 Farm Bill Program ▫ Funding for projects ▫ Funding for National Clean Plant Network
- 8. Animal Health Farm Bill Program: Tier 1 • Prevention • Animal Pest and Disease Disaster Prevention and Response Program ▫ Administered by APHIS ▫ Focus early detection and rapid response ▫ Support and Collaboration by National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) ▫ Similar to 10007 program
- 9. Animal Health Farm Bill Program: Tier 2 • Surveillance • National Animal Health Laboratory Network ▫ Build upon the 2014 authorization of the NAHLN ▫ Reduce the impact of high-consequence animal diseases ▫ Develop diseases prevention and mitigation technologies ▫ Identify and support critical research needs
- 10. Animal Health Farm Bill Program: Tier 3 • Response • National Animal Disease Vaccine Bank ▫ Rapidly response to a disease outbreak ▫ Establish and maintain a rapidly deployable vaccine bank for high consequence animal diseases
- 11. Farm Bill Update • Challenges ▫ Significant budgetary hurdles ▫ Farm bill is also a nutrition bill ▫ Timing – floor time ▫ Mid-term elections ▫ Trade
- 12. Questions? • Aline DeLucia Associate Director, Public Policy aline@nasda.org Twitter: @NASDANews Instagram: @NASDANews www.nasda.org
Editor's Notes
- NASDA is a non-profit, non-partisan association which represents the elected and appointed commissioners, secretaries, and directors of the departments of agriculture in all fifty states and four U.S. territories. 12 are elected, all others are appointed Our mission is to grow and enhance agriculture by forging partnerships and creating consensus to achieve sound policy outcomes between state departments of agriculture, the federal government, and stakeholders.
- Trade & Export Promotion – The Market Access Program (MAP) promotes American-grown and produced food and ag products that are in competition with heavily subsidized foreign products. For every $1 invested in export market development programs, $24 is returned in export revenue. This means significant positive effects for farmers &ranchers like increased income and more American jobs in the farm and food sector. Funding for the Market Access Program (MAP) should be increased from $200 to $400M to better promote America’s food and ag products in demand across the globe. Specialty Crop Block Grants – SCBG provides important tools to enhance specialty crop production, while also advancing foods with critical health benefits to the American people. To the extent additional funding is available, funding for the SCBG program should be increased and Congress should ensure a flexible, locally responsive, and state-led program. Conservation Programs: CP provide financial and technical assistance needed to conserve our nation’s natural resources and meet increasing regulatory demands. The next Farm Bill must make substantial investments in voluntary locally-driven, flexible, and efficient conservation programs. Additional investments are needed to continue targeted conservation, address water quality challenges and face regulatory pressures. Invasive Species: Invasive Pests and plants are an often catastrophic threat to farmers and ranchers. To address this increasing threat, bold actions is required. Building upon on the success of the invasive species programs created by the 2014 Farm Bill, congress should bring additional tools to bear on this serious economic threat. Funding the highly successful “plant pest and disease management &disaster prevention” and the “national clean plant network” should be increased to in order to provide additional tools for domestic invasive species issues. Enhanced funding and coordination of invasive species under the direction of the USDA office of pest management policy and involving other departments and agencies of the federal and state governments should be considered to strengthen programs and maximize the value of the federal funding. Research, Education and Economics: Robust funding for agricultural research and extension programs, and infrastructure, particularly within our nation’s many outstanding agricultural colleges and universities, is vital to ensuring producers remain competitive domestically and globally. The farm bill must ensure adequate funding for research focusing on the safety and security of the food system and improving and protecting our natural resources. Food Safety: FSMA is landmark bill which has overhauled American food safety regulation from response-driven to preventive and farm-focused. Congress should address the variety of implementation challenges with the final FSMA rules. The next Farm Bill should provide resources to assist producers in complying with FSMA, especially via low-coast loans for infrastructure updates.
- An outbreak of a foreign animal disease has the ability to cripple the entire agricultural sector and have long-lasting ramifications for the economic viability of U.S. animal production. – Animal agriculture groups started to develop and refine this idea years ago. And, after much discussion we all came into an agreement that a new program was needed. In 2015, the avian influenza outbreak affected farmers in 15 states, claiming more than 45 million birds. Estimated impact was 3.3 Billion. And, the estimated impact of a single outbreak of FMD in the US would be 200 Billion. It is essential that APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) within USDA working cooperatively with state animal health officials have a robust capability in the form of a rapidly deployable vaccine bank, sufficient laboratory capacity for surveillance and overall rapid response capacity in the state level. 10007 program – Under the 2014 Farm Bill Section 10007, USDA/APHIS offers funding for project that protect plant health in the US. Cooperators across the country put innovative ideas into action with Farm Bill funds to meet and overcome challenges we currently face. Each year, at least $5 million of the Farm Bill section 10007 funding goes to the National Clean Plant Network Program. This funding supports established universities and government clean plant centers to develop, maintain, and provide foundation stock of select specialty crops. Industry and others use the stock material to start or regrow clean plants.
- The disease prevention piece can be carried out through cooperative agreements or grants that would facilitate training programs, expand disease surveillance capabilities, enhance threat assessments, improve mitigation capacity. This program would take advantage , through support and collaboration, of the science generated by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) program established under section 1433 of the National Ag. Research, Extension and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, the Continuing Animal Health and Disease Research Program.
- Surveillance: Building upon the 2014 Farm Bill’s authorization of the NAHLN, this program would help support NAHLN and bring together federal government with states, industry, universities, and other interested groups to reduce the impact of high-consequence animal diseases, provide rapid detection and response capabilities to respond to animal diseases, develop disease prevention mitigation technologies including vaccines, prevent the entrance and spread of foreign animal diseases into the United States and identify and support critical research needs.
- US does not have enough FMD vaccine of handle more than a very small, localized disease event. (Plum Island has a very limited capacity – vaccine antigen concentrate for a limited number of strains)- the antigen concentrate also have a limited shelf life that affects the effectiveness of the vaccine. If an outbreak occurs the antigen would have to be shipped to somewhere in EU to be turned into finished vaccine and shipped back to he US. (it would take weeks) – This current activity is funded t $1.9 million/annually.
- Trade: Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Wednesday that the prospect of a prolonged trade war taking a toll on farm country could require that Capitol Hill lawmakers take "some extraordinary measures" in the next farm bill. trade concerns show the need for Congress to continue efforts to strengthen the farm safety net – ps. USDA has broad authority to utilize emergency funds to stabilize elements of the agricultural economy. But Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said recently that adding "special payments" to the farm bill to account for trade-related woes would complicate the already challenging funding situation - a special payment with regards to retaliation, that just adds another dustup right before the farm bill.