Category: brucellosis
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No S__T
I do believe I have been saying this all along.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/12/news/wyoming/24-vets.txt">Vets wary of disease 'hot-zone' </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal government plan to carve out the Yellowstone area as an animal disease "hot-zone" faces opposition from some state veterinarians, who worry the move would lower cattle industry safeguards.<br />n<br />nCreation of the zone would…
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Quick Hits
Things I should have posted about but haven't.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/05/news/state/38-brucellosis.txt">Brucellosis is almost wiped out in the US</a> with the declaration that Texas is now Brucellosis Free. Of course there still is the problem of Brucellosis in Bison and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area, but that is not cattle. I still think it can…
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Headlines
Don't you just love headlines that scream out things that aren't true?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=9162">Open Season on America's last Wild Bison </a><br />n<br />nMontana issues 44 tags for Bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park which has around 4000 head of Bison, and people want to call that open season. A little overboard, isn't…
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Life Rope?
<blockquote>"We threw them a life rope," he said. "They said 'We don't want any life ropes.' That's what their position is."</blockquote><br />n<br />nBullshit!!!!! The Governor didn't throw a life rope for God's sake. He threw an unworkable proposal that was designed to take our focus away from the real issue. How to control brucellosis in…
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No Split State
I see the Board of Livestock has decided <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/07/news/state/19-panelists.txt">against split state status</a> for Brucellosis here in Montana. The Governor decided to let the ranching community decide and they let their feelings be known to the Board of Livestock yesterday.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>After hours of rancorous debate punctuated by yelling and boos from the audience, the…
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Split State Concern
<a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/10/26/ag_news/local_and_regional_news/local10.txt">Ranchers voice concerns over proposed split-state status</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana cattlemen have a choice to make – to pursue a split-state status in the case of another brucellosis outbreak around the Yellow-stone National Park – or not.<br />n<br />n“The governor is leaving it up to the cattle industry,” said Jan French, Board of Livestock member…
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Told You So
I told you the other day that <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2898-Nothing.html"><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> knew he couldn't help</a> the Morgans and <a href="http://karbonkountymoos.com/">Karen</a> but just didn't want to tell them to their face. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/08/news/state/20-brucellosis.txt">Today's article about the situation</a> just confirms that.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Bridger ranching family that had to slaughter all its stock because of a…
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Buffer Zone
As you may or may not know, <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> has proposed a buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park as an answer to the Brucellosis problem in the Park. I give him credit for trying to do something about the situation but I don't really think a buffer zone is the answer.<br />n<br />nIt…
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Sour Grapes
The Montana Stockgrowers Association has a <a href="http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=7092734&nav=menu227_5">little beef</a> with Gov. Schweitzer. How much of there problem with him is real and how much is sour grapes I'm not sure. It used to be members of the Montana Stockgrowers dominated the Livestock board but nowadays they don't so I think <u>some</u> sour grapes is involved.<br…
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Britan’s Outbreak
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Foot-and-mouth disease detected in UK</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIn 2001, foot and mouth disease devastated Britain's meat industries and I'm sure everyone…