{"id":60,"date":"2010-03-16T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjuliesmithdairyblog.wordpress.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-05-17T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:35:27","slug":"animal-health-emergency-management-tabletop-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2010\/03\/16\/animal-health-emergency-management-tabletop-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Health Emergency Management Tabletop Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2010\/06\/swine-committee-table-top-exercise-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2010\/06\/swine-committee-table-top-exercise-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2010\/06\/swine-committee-table-top-exercise-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2010\/06\/swine-committee-table-top-exercise-web.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swine committee table top exercise in Kansas City, MO. This picture first appeared in the May issue of NIAA&#039;s newsletter, &quot;News and Information for Animal Agriculture&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<dd> <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Being on the lookout for opportunities to mingle with other industry folks engaged in animal disease emergency preparedness, I recently joined the Animal Health Emergency Management Committee of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalagriculture.org\/\">NIAA<\/a>).\u00a0 Committee Co-chairs Patrick Webb of the National Pork Board and Leah Dorman of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation arranged a tabletop exercise for participants at the March 2010 meeting.\u00a0 Tabletops can be designed in different ways; this one involved an elaborate tabletop model of several livestock facilities and farms adjacent to a state border.\u00a0 The goal was to engage the industry sectors represented\u2014dairy, beef, and swine\u2014in discussions of how best to respond to maximize continuity of business.\u00a0 Continuity of business refers to the ability to keep animals fed and animals or animal products headed to market channels within the constraints of the emergency response.\u00a0 As the scenario unfolded, it dawned on me that the response that dairy farms might favor could be in conflict with the response that swine producers might favor.\u00a0 Clearly this type of exercise needs to be repeated as various industry groups develop their continuity of business plans to deal with animal disease disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being on the lookout for opportunities to mingle with other industry folks engaged in animal disease emergency preparedness, I recently joined the Animal Health Emergency Management Committee of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA).\u00a0 Committee Co-chairs Patrick Webb of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2010\/03\/16\/animal-health-emergency-management-tabletop-exercise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15824,15825],"tags":[15832,15858,15872,15880],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-just-my-thoughts","category-news-worthy-mentionables","tag-animal-health","tag-fmd","tag-niaa","tag-tabletop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}