The Agriculture and Livestock Worktable is dedicated to collaborative education, research and communication to resolve trade issues and increase the flow of agriculture products among the ten Border States. The Agriculture and Livestock Worktable currently is taking action to:
• Identify and evaluate possible threats to animal and plant health that can have a significant negative emergency impact on the United States-Mexico border region, and to prepare cooperative strategies to prevent entrance of exotic pests such as citrus greening disease.
• Collect information from each state on the different programs implemented within the United States-Mexico border region that improve childhood nutrition and agricultural awareness.
• Expand dialogue with appropriate public health, resources (fish and game, forestry) and environmental protection agencies at the state and federal levels to gather information, through technical visits, on programs addressing invasive pests and plants and/or animal diseases along the United States-Mexico border region.
