Fountain Report Excerpts Jan 07, 2025

Fountain Report Excerpts
  1. Tractor Supply Company completed its acquisition of Allivet, a privately held online pet and animal pharmacy, which is licensed in 50 states with three distribution centers. The plans to acquire Allivet were announced on Oct. 24, 2024.
  1. Arkansas next year will begin training students at the state’s first two vet schools – Lyon College and Arkansas State University. Both will both break ground this year on multimillion-dollar facilities, and each expects to welcome a class of 120 students in the fall of 2026, pending accreditation. Arkansas is one of 22 states without an accredited veterinary school.
  1. The Mississippi Board of Animal Health has been notified by the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory that poultry from a commercial broiler chicken flock in Copiah County has tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. The affected premises have been quarantined and birds on the property have been depopulated.

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