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Livestock industry continues push for FMD vaccine bank
Dec 27, 2017, 16:55 PM
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As farm bill discussions intensify in 2018, the livestock industry will push Congress to include funding for a Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine bank.
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) president Craig Uden says the cost of establishing a robust FMD vaccine bank would be 150 million dollars annually. While that is not an insignificant number, Uden says, it pales in comparison to the projected economic consequences of an FMD outbreak.
“We’re looking at an issue that could cost the agricultural industry of the United States somewhere around 200 billion dollars in ten years,” Uden says.
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