What happens when an exotic plant disease spreads across the agricultural fields of your state? Plant and agricultural product inspectors are the front-line troops for controlling or eliminating parasites, fungi, bacteria and viruses that could impact your state’s natural resources and cultivated agricultural products.
The United States prepares local farmers and the agriculture industry to protect themselves from acts of Agroterrorism. WIFSS is on board at 48th Annual Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Emergency Management & Homeland Security to lend expertise in training exercises.
Without coordinated response, awareness and resources, those animals left behind in a natural or man-made disaster most often do not survive.
“A farmer, health inspector and FBI agent walk into a county fair pavilion…” It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but……