Category: Cattle Buisness

Now this is a real interesting development. <br />n<a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/business/TKY200407170161.html"> <br />n Japan: No <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> test for young cattle </a><br />n<br />nA government advisory panel has issued a report that indicates that young cattle in Japan should be exempt from <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> testing since "the risk that the substance that…

Since I don't live in Southern CA, I don't feel I can accurately comment on their <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/29/build/nation/72-pollution-rules.inc">pollution</a> problems. Whether the cows are a factor I don't know. What I do know is overcrowding when I hear it.<br />n<br />n<i>Marquez, whose family runs two dairies with a total of 70 acres and 2,000 cows, said…

Justice is not only blind, <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040423/bs_nm/food_tyson_ruling_dc">it can obviously be bought too</a>. You have a trail by jury, the jury finds against the defendant, so the judge throws the whole thing out since the jury is too stupid to know better. The system fails yet again.<br />n<br />n<b>If you want divine justice, die. Nick Seldon</b>

Now <a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2004/03/10/build/energy/windfarm.php?nnn=5">here</a> is the kind of energy development that certain parts of Montana needs to be focusing on. I know where I am at the wind does not blow enough to work but along the front range it would be an amazing source of economic development. Of course with any type of development there…

I see a Federal Appeals court has upheld the <a href="http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=39901">unconstitutionality of the Milk Checkoff program</a>. Maybe this will be the final nail in the coffin for the Beef Checkoff program. For years groups have been fighting the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2003/10/03/build/business/40-checkoff.inc">Beef Checkoff</a> and recently even got a ruling that it was unconstitutional, except that the same…

Well it looks like before too much longer the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/24/build/nation/65-madcow.inc">Dead Cow Police (DCP)</a> might come knocking on my door. I knew this would be coming. Testing of dead critters. When you run your cattle in big pastures sometimes you don't find a dead cow until she is nothing but bones and then how are…

This is a big suprise to me. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/18/build/nation/50-beefsettlement.inc">$1.28B awarded to cattlemen in price manipulation lawsuit</a>. I assumed the meat packers would have deep enough pockets to buy the verdict they wanted. I know awful cynical of me but that's the way our justice system appears to work most of the time.<br />n<!–more–><br />nThe whole…

The prairie dog issue has confused me greatly. Here is a nusiance critter that is all over the place, in large numbers, and it is a "candidate species for Federal protection under the Endangerd Species Act." Why? Can anyone answer that for me? Like I said there are little colonies all over the place and…

The brucellosis debate in Yellowstone Park continues. Now we are going to try <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/10/build/state/33-bisonnrucellosis.inc">vaccination of young animals</a> to see if we can get brucellosis under control. The whole idea is to see if the vaccination is going to be effective or not. I may not be a scientist but I can tell you it…

Well I see the fat's in the fire for Wyoming now. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/23/build/wyoming/30-brucellosis.inc">Brucellosis found in more Wyoming cattle</a> This is a very signifigant development since it will cause Wyoming cattle producers to have to test any intact breeding animal for brucellosis prior to shipping it out of state. This is a very costly and time…