WIFSS represented RDPC in Hondo, Texas this month
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Earthquake Jolts Both Cities and Farms on California’s North Coast
University of California’s Western Institute for Food Safety & Security, WIFSS, has long worked with agriculture to prepare, respond, and recover from natural disasters.
Breeding Crops for Enhanced Food Safety
June 5 kicked off a two-day conference where experts in various fields from plant science to microbiology detailed the research being done in eradicating the occurrence of human pathogens in crop production through breeding.
Owners of Goat Farm Highlight Role of Disaster Recovery
The recent flooding in Nebraska left owners John Carrol and Chad Wegener rushing to save the livestock on their 40-acre goat farm.
Rallying to Rescue San Clemente Island Goats in Midwest Flood
Hours logged instructing first responders has confirmed for Tracey Stevens the practical application of implementing emergency preparedness training. Her standard classroom opening remark now takes on a deeply personal meaning, “Mother Nature never sleeps.”
Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training Courses
WIFSS is serving the needs of the farming community by helping meet FSMA training requirements and is offering a series of 20 Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) Grower Training Courses on behalf of the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA). The training courses run through June 2019 and are offered in English and Spanish.
Disaster Training Important as Ever
Great concerns are present for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), as well as catastrophic natural disasters. Tracey Stevens led the Moorefield courses which allowed for broad discussions, information sharing, strategic planning and simulation planning with table top exercises and group discussions. The regional conference was an opportunity for statewide leadership to meet and discuss the agriculture and food animal planning for the state and individual jurisdictions.
From Ranchers to Emergency Planners, WIFSS Provides Disaster Planning Assistance
As wildfire season rages along the west coast, wrecking havoc on rural communities from California to Washington state, there is no better time to learn how to prepare, manage, and plan for disasters. In an ongoing partnership with RDPC and The Department of Homeland Security, WIFSS trained a diverse group of professionals on creating a thorough disaster preparedness and response plan.
Protecting our Food and Agriculture
Finding real world solutions to issues facing Sweden and the U.S. from threats of agroterrorism is the driving force behind the WIFSS-Sweden partnership. A three-member delegation of Swedish government officials met with WIFSS personnel in April as part of an ongoing collaboration to better understand the dangers and vulnerability of antagonistic threats to food and agriculture.
WIFSS Experts Train WV Disaster Response Teams
Management level class provides emergency planners and rapid response teams with the background information needed to participate in the development of disaster response plans that could be included within the existing operational area.