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Department of Livestock briefs committee on brands, animal health lab and predator programs
Summary
Deputy executive officer Brian Simonson described the department’s divisions, brand-record system, livestock-loss payments, predator-control spending and the new Montana veterinary diagnostic lab under construction in Bozeman.
The Montana Department of Livestock provided the Senate Agriculture Committee an overview of the agency’s divisions, brand-enforcement program, animal-health work and facility investments.
Brian Simonson, deputy executive officer, said the department’s central services division manages business functions and attached agencies such as the Milk Control Board and the livestock loss board. He told senators the state budgets roughly $450,000 for livestock claims with about $100,000 set aside for mitigation grants and that the department…
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