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AgConnect in Colorado1 picture is worth a 1000 MBs of Data.

Colorado Department of Agriculture Animal Health Division

Here’s what the system looks like

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AgConnect = “A way to visualize your data and

overlay it with other external data”

• This is not a “how to” guide to use AgConnect –

• Instead we will give examples of how we have used AgConnect in livestock emergency management, traceability, and regulatory disease control

Important Criteria to make AgConnect a Successful Tool

1. “Know” USAHERDS or your database, how data is categorized2. Think through how data will map out in AgConnect– understand what data AgConnect can pull from your database3. Think through what is the most logical way to enter data into HERDS / your database so that it can be mapped out4. Staff resources – having someone who knows HERDS / your database and can learn new technology

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How has Colorado used AgConnect?

• Agriculture Incident Response – Wildfires, Toxic Spill

• Livestock Disease Response – Vesicular Stomatitis

• Trainings – Use in building incident response

• Livestock Emergency Preparedness Planning

• Animas River – 2015: Toxic heavy metal contaminated

water released into the river from the Gold King

Mine

• Needed to map all livestock premises within 2 miles on

both sides of the river

• Created a polygon shape around the river in AgConnect

• Created a filter that showed only the premises within that geo-shape created

Gold King Mine Incident

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Magically, we turned the river blue again!

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AgConnect can take data from a 27 column X 550 row spreadsheet and convert it into a picture-map that has new usefulness… r quarantine release (purple)

• These maps were provided to our Western Dairy Association to help them educate their dairy

producers

• Helped to stress the importance of VSV and have dairy farms increase their vector control on dairy

farms close to quarantined locations

Vesicular Stomatitis 2015

• Needed to map all premises by status:1. Hold (yellow)2. Quarantine(red)3. Quarantine release (purple)

• These maps were provided to our Western Dairy Association to help them educate their dairy producers

• Helped to stress the importance of VSV and have dairy farms increase their vector control on dairy farms close to quarantined locations

• Also used when we were exporting horses to states like _____, that required that no horses were coming from within 10 miles of VSV quarantined premises in a given time framer quarantine release (purple)

• Thapern Dairy Association to help them educate their dairy producers

• Helped to stress the importance of VSV and have dairy farms increase their vector control on dairy farms close to quarantined locations

Vesicular Stomatitis 2015

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Wildfire and Agriculture Incidents

Recent Beulah Hill Wildfire – SW of Pueblo, CO

Hats and Boots – Assets for the Response

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1. Incident Management Team wants to protect safety of public and property2. Livestock are often forgotten or IMT does not know where they are located3. Easy to forget about the ranchers needing access to care for cattle (“shelter in place”) and access to move cattle that need to be evacuated – thus ranchers lose access to the property and roads4. Ranchers and farmers are assets to the IMT as they know the premises, people, and the problems

Wildfires in Livestock Areas cause livestock losses and access issues for ranchers

Where is the fire?

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Where are the livestock premises in relationship to the fire?

Where are the trouble spots?

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Zooming in…

• Needed to map all premises within a 10k circle around a suspect premises

• We decided to use roads and natural boundaries for the “circle”

• Filtered for all the premises within that area

HPAI Potential Case

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Control Zone within Geo-political boundaries like roads, county borders and natural boundaries.

• Needed to map all premises on the western slope to show close vicinity and what a 10k circle would include

• Filtered for all the commercial poultry premises

• In biosecurity on-farm assessment interviews – able to show control zones if their premises were the center of a control zone

Poultry Industry Biosecurity Training and Assessments

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Mapping Permitted HPAI Movements - Premises

Mapping Permitted HPAI Movements – Premises Western Slope

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Mapping Permitted HPAI Movements – HPAI Permits

Mapping Permitted HPAI Movements – Distance Lines

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Tracing Out Livestock Movements into NWSS

Tracing Out Equine Movements into NWSS

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Thanks!

Questions?