—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February tl, *979
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Animal, plantprograms reviewed by USD A
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
When Congress ap
propriated $l5 million in
September 1978 for food
animal health and disease
research, it may have been
making one of its best in
flation-fighting investments
ever for the long-range good
of the people, says the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Payoff on the investment
will come with successful
eradication, prevention or
control of diseases, which
will reduce losses to
producers, and in turn lower
prices the consumer must
pay at the marketplace.
The funds will primarily
support research to alleviate
infectious, noninfectious,
parasitic, and toxicological
diseases of livestock,
poultry, other food animals,
and horses, according to
USDA spokesman. USDA’s
Science and Education
Administration, Cooperative
Research, is the office
responsible for ad
minfetering the program.
Funds will be allocated to
colleges of veterinary
medicine and State
agricultural experiment
stations around the country
to do the actual research.
Allocation will be by formula
- taking into account the
relative importance of
livestock in each state, and
the capacity of the scientific
organizations to conduct
animal health and disease
research.
Disease and parasites
cause losses estimated at
about $4 billion annually,
equivalent to more than 10
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from livestock and poultry.
Such losses result from
deaths of animals, reduced
productivity, cost of
treatment and -im
munizations, cost of
regulatory programs, and
condemnations of meat at
the slaughter house.
Losses through disease are
necessarily reflected in the
price of meat, milk, eggs and
wool For example, the price
of pork is influenced by the
young pigs which die before
reaching marketable age.
Bovine mastitis reduces
milk production and in
creases the market price of
milk. Disease losses are part
of the cost of production. The
. prices of livestock and
animal products on the
market are geared to cover
disease losses. The lower the
losses, the less the pressure
on these prices.
In addition to relieving
these continuing losses,
more effective animal
disease control is also urgent
because many of these
diseases are transmissible
between animals and man -
salmonellosis, brucellosis
and leptospirosis, for
example. The presence of
these diseases in U.S.
animals also limits the
export demand for livestock
and poultry products, and
may even limit interstate
movement of the products.
The State agricultural
experiment stations, from
their beginning over 100
years ago, conducted
research to improve the
efficiency of farmers and to
make food available to the
consumer at an affordable
price. Experiment stations
receive both Federal and
state funds to carry out these
objectives.
Along those lines, ex- veterinary medicine to
periment stations conduct receive appropriated funds
research on animal to support research,
production (husbandry, In spite of the lack of
management, nutrition and adequate funding and the
genetics). But many stations relatively high level of losses
did not take significant to disease, significant gains
responsibility for research t have been made In research
on diseases. The apparent on animal diseases. In April
assumption was that since 1978-, Agriculture Secretary
much of the expertise for '* Bob Bergland announced
that hog cholera had been
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in the schools and colleges of
veterinary medicine, they
should be responsible for
that research. However, no
provisions were made for the
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This was accomplished with
the help of a rapid and highly
accurate test for identifying
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resulting in annual savings
of about $5O million.
Cooperative USDA and
experiment station research
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led to a highly, effective
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industry. During the 10 years
leading to the development
of the vaccine, USDA costs
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for this research came to
about $lO million and the
cost to states was about $6.4
million. Before this
breakthrough, March’s
disease took a toll estimated
at $2OO million per year. With
the vaccine now in use,
annual savings amount to
about $l7O million.
These are examples of
what can be done with
adequate funding. Public
Law 95-113,' passed by
Congress in 1977, provides
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