Nearly a decade before new animal disease lab is ready

“It will be nearly another decade” before the mammoth National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Kansas goes into operation, says Drovers CattleNetwork, reporting on a presentation at a veterinarians’ conference. The 580,000-square-foot laboratory would replace USDA’s Plum Island lab off of Long Island, NY, and would become the government’s highest-security animal disease lab. “Current plans call… » Read More