Yoxheimer To Head PDA’s Cattle Health Division
HARRISBURG - A former
federal official with more than 20
years of experience in ad
ministering animal health control
programs in Pennsylvania will fill
a key post in the State Department
of Agriculture.
The appointment of Ronald E.
Yoxheimer as chief of the
Department’s Cattle Health
Division was announced recently
by Secretary Richard E. Grubb.
Since 1983, Yoxheimer has been
the area veterinarian in charge of
the Federal Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service in
Pennsylvania. He left federal
employment on Aug.l.
Grubb said that in addition to
directing the cattle health division,
Yoxheimer will temporarily
oversee the Department’s Avian
Health programs. The post of chief
of Avian Health is vacant at the
present time. In both assignments,
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Yoxheimer will report to Dr. Max
A. Van Buskirk, Jr., director of the
Bureau of Animal Industry.
“The Department is fortunate,”
Grubb said, “to have a person with
Dr. Yoxheimer’s knowledge and
experience to direct the state’s
efforts to assure animal health in
the cattle and poultry industries -
both important to Pennsylvania’s
economy.
Grubb said Yoxheimer will be
directing cattle and poultry
disease control programs ad
ministered by the veterinary and
technical staffs in each of the
Department’s seven regional of
fices throughout the Com
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Yoxheimer, a native of Nor
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health programs to the state post.
He was associated with the federal
APHIS program in Pennsylvania
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