Diagnostic Laboratory
“There we go!” -Cheers-
With that the new Diagnostic Laboratory for the Idaho State Department of Agriculture officially opens. Plans for the 10-million-dollar facility have been in the works for years, but funding in the legislature never quite came together.
“But as time went on, we had a new governor, and a new governor with a vision and that kind of pushed us to be doing things that we should be doing and so this old director decided we better get with it and we got the money for the new lab,”
ISDA Director Celia Gould said her staff made sure the new lab could accommodate the huge increases in testing demands.
“They really did a great job of asking people what we needed, and asking our industry partners what we needed,” said Gould.
“One of the things that we just have to think about is the growth that’s taken place in Idaho,” said Idaho Governor Brad Little.
“About 2016 we had zero large cattle processing facilities in the state. In a year and a half, we will have four new, modern, sophisticated, state of the art animal processing facilities.
