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Virginia cattle producers should find few restrictions as they approach their fall feeder cattle sales season, according to state agriculture commissioner J. Carlton Courterlll.
Following the discovery of tuberculosis lesions on cattle slaughtered in Pennsylvania, the virus was traced to Virginia and a Floyd County farm was quarantined, and the status of the entire state’s feeder cattle marketing was threatened. That cattle is generally marketed between 450 and 850 pounds, and are sold primarily to buyers in Midwestern states where they are fed until they reach their optimum slaughter weight.
In June, the state’s TB-free certification was suspended and changed to “Accredited Free (Suspended)” after the first tests from the Floyd County farm were reported positive. Within days, that herd was destroyed and, with the cooperation of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, testing began on another 103 herds.
That additional testing, involving some 4,600 animals, failed to reveal any additional positive results, and VDACS officials began contacting cattle markets in other states about easing the restriction.
“This is the first time USD A has issued a special TB classification called ‘Accredited Free (Suspended),’ causing confusion throughout the country,” Courter said in a letter to state cattle producers and
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