The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has published a new five-year strategic plan. It incorporates input received from stakeholders on the strategic framework—a summarized version of the plan published in June 2022. The plan includes six strategic goals that focus on:
- Protecting agriculture from plant and animal diseases and pests.
- Positioning the agency’s workforce to better meet current and future challenges.
- Delivering solutions that reduce the impacts of zoonotic and emerging diseases, and ecosystem changes, such as climate change.
- Expanding safe…