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market operators. i That new status threatened the state’s fall cattle sales, the Commonwealth’s second largest agricultural enterprise. Feeder cattle sales accounted for $334 million in sales' last year.
As a result of talks between VDACS’s Divisions of Animal Health and Marketing and officials in other states where the majority of Virginia feeder cattle are shipped, those states will not require TB testing for Virginia feeder cattle. Indiana, Michigan, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Kentucky will require only entry permits stating the origin and destination of the cattle, along with health certificates. Indiana will require testing for Floyd County cattle.
Only Missouri has insisted on TB testing for all Virginia feeder cattle more than six months old, according to Courter.
“The Virginia cattle industry is to be commended for the way it has pulled together and worked with the department in helping ease this crisis,” Courter said in his letter.
Courter also noted that cattle producers and other industry participants are assisting with the Costs incurred in getting TB-free status returned. “Given the budgetary constraints we face, this cooperation could be a major factor in getting our TB-free status restored. It is this kind of spirit and effort tha has made Virginia’s feeder cattle industry the economic force that it is today.”
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