Category: Cattle Buisness

Now I find <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR2005050601345.html" target="_new">this idea</a> out of South Dakota interesting. Make a premium beef product, from calf to slaughter, and market it via the state name. I don't particularly like the Government doing such a thing, a co-op might be a better idea, but the basic plan is interesting.<br />n<br />nMontana would have…

The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> has finally <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/06/build/nation/30-livestock-id.inc" target="_new">come out</a> with the plan for getting the <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> going in the country. I have looked over both the <a href="http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Strategic_Plan_42505.pdf" target="_new">Strategic Plan</a> and the <a href="http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Program_Standards_42505.pdf" target="_new">Program Standards</a> (both are…

I would like to point out that while <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/05/02/news/wyoming/9d0482243d5b70bd87256ff30074c0e9.txt" target="_new">this</a> is interesting I don't know why it is necessary. If the Federal Government would just enforce the <a href="http://www.usda.gov/agency/gipsa/lawsandregs/law/psact.htm" target="_new">Packers and Stockyards Act</a> new legislation would not be needed to prevent the big meat packers from manipulating the market to their advantage. As long…

Part of the conversation about Country Of Origin Labeling (<acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>) on a national level has been what the costs would be to the producers in the US. I have never been able to figure out why we have to pay for it and what our costs would be. I've always asked…

I have mentioned more than once how I believe the large Meatpackers control the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>). I know you think that it's just the rantings of a madman when I say it but check <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/26/build/state/45-meatpacker-suit.inc" target="_new">this…

It has been pointed out to me by some of my Canadian readers, with proof, that some members of R-calf own cattle in Canada. I see the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/09/build/state/35-rcalf.inc" target="_new">story</a> is in the Gazette now also. I present this here because the Canadian readers feel this fact damages R-calf's credibility. I'm not sure how since…

I routinely rail against the Government and meat packers particularly when it comes to <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> and Canadian cattle. Any body who reads here knows this. Today I will have to give credit to them for their efforts in further reducing <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/01/build/nation/84-ecoli.inc" target="_new">E. coli</a> in ground beef. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>Of 8,010 ground…

Do you want to know what my definition of insane is? Letting the <a href="http://www.beef.org/" target="_new"><acronym title="National Cattlemen Beef Association"><acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym></acronym></a> maintain control of the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/20/build/business/52-beef-database.inc" target="_new">database</a> for the proposed Herd Identification System in the US. Letting the <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for…

The other day I talked about the drought in <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/764-Staying-the-Same.html" target="_new">Australia</a> and it's consequences to the cattle industry there. I run across another story about the drought Down Under that is just sickening.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3192547a12,00.html" target="_new">Australian outback cattle abandoned, 500 die of thirst</a><br />n<br />n3000 head of cattle were abandoned in heat of…

When a Japanese official <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/17/build/wyoming/75-beef-imports.inc" target="_new">states</a> that he expects Japan will end it's ban on US beef and that, more importantly, Japanese consumers are looking forward to it I have to be optimistic. I don't particularly believe him but I have to be optimistic.<br />n<br />nI have read quite a few stories in the…