Approximately $14.4 million will be assigned among seventy-six projects with Land Grant, universities and other institutions to advance research on preventing animal diseases.  Funds will be derived from the Farm Bill according to Greg Ibach, Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. 

Approximately $9 million will support the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program with forty-five projects in sixteen states.  Activities will include livestock biosecurity, investigation of emergency flock and herd depopulation and disposal. 

The National Animal Health Laboratory Network will receive $5 million to fund thirty National Animal Health Laboratory Network projects in twenty-one states.  Diagnostic procedures will be enhanced with specific reference to catastrophic diseases including African swine fever, avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease.