Responding to the global public health threat posed by antimicrobial resistance, APLU and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) joined forces to create the Joint APLU | AAVMC Task Force on Antibiotic Resistance in Production Agriculture. The task force developed a comprehensive national strategy for diminishing the role antibiotics used in food animal production systems play in the broader antimicrobial resistance (AMR) problem.