The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan will have a ribbon cutting next month.
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran announced earlier this month during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture that the ceremony will be May 24th. NBAF is located in Manhattan and construction started in 2015 to replace the 68-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the coast of New York. Scientists at NBAF study human and animal biological threats including foot-and-mouth disease. According to the USDA, it will take at least two years to transfer work from Plum Island to Kansas.
