Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) will merge portions of the Fort Worth region with the Lampasas and Mount Pleasant regions on June 29, 2018. This will be the final region merge for the TAHC and will facilitate cost savings to allow TAHC’s region offices to have the resources and personnel necessary to protect the health and marketability of Texas’ livestock, exotic livestock and domestic and exotic fowl.
The Lampasas region will gain Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell, Hood, Jack, Jones, Knox, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise and Young counties. The Mount Pleasant region will gain Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson and Tarrant counties.
The Lampasas region office is located at 1305 South Key Avenue, Suite 204, Lampasas, Texas 76550, and may be reached at 512-556-6277. Dr. Pete Fincher will serve as the region director and Ann Wagner will be the supervising inspector.
The Mount Pleasant region office is located at 313 West Alabama Street, Suite 1, Mount Pleasant, Texas 75455, and may be reached at 903-572-1966. Dr. Hank Hayes will serve as the region director and Bill Curry will be the supervising inspector.
TAHC livestock inspectors and veterinarians will continue to be strategically located throughout the merged regions to work with producers, livestock markets and to meet regional and local needs.
In conjunction with the region merge, TAHC has renamed each region to reflect the correlating office location. For questions concerning the region merge or rename, please contact your current region office or the central office at 800-550-8242.