Category: nais
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The Push Is On
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=0640F3ED-046B-B2B9-A179977221356FDD" >NPPC firmly behind mandatory animal ID</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Incoming House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson told farm broadcasters at their national convention again on Friday he backs mandatory national animal identification, because <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is "screwing up" in implementing a voluntary…
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Animal ID
If you have paid any attention to me at all, you know I don't support the governments <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> efforts. We don't need the government mandating yet another expensive program that us producers can't afford to implement for them.<br />n<br />nYesterday I worked my replacement heifers, heifer calves that I am keeping…
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Down Under
Just a few different items from Australia that have caught my eye.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20596614-1702,00.html" >Drought hitting livestock prices</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>LIVESTOCK prices across NSW are in freefall, with farmers selling off record numbers of sheep and cattle as the drought worsens.<br />n<br />nMeat processors say they cannot take any more livestock, and producers say they…
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Like It Should Be
I've talked about how an ID system should be voluntary and if it was economically viable should not even be required by the government. The free market will provide it. Starting to see it a little now. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/15/news/business/55-tag.txt">This article</a> uses the voluntary use of ID tags as an opening to explain how the <acronym…
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Thoughts
Mary Zanoni, Director Of Farm For Life <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?ContentId=70500">speaks to cattlemen</a> on <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>You don’t have to eat whatever slop the government puts in front of you. Send the slop back to the kitchen and demand a better chef.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI like it!
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Stupid Idea
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/17/news/wyoming/50-brand.txt" >Brand inspections for horses debated</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A proposal to make brand inspections optional for horses is being criticized by some horse owners – and by some brand inspectors, as well.<br />n<br />nThe Wyoming Legislative Brand Inspection Task Force voted last week to recommend that brand inspections be made optional for horses.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMaking…
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Get the Story Straight
I think Leo McDonnell, Past President of R-CALF USA, needs to get his story straight. At a recent <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/090506-mississippi.htm">get together in Mississippi</a> he told the gathered crowd;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>“R-CALF USA does not support the proposed Animal ID system,” he said. “It is hypocrisy to put such a costly and burdensome regulation on the U.S.…
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Animal ID Update
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=62914" title="Who Are These People?">Livestock Industry Panel Favors US Animal ID System</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Livestock and meat industry experts said Wednesday they generally were in favor of having a national animal identification program for disease control, but articulated concerns with the current, developing program.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo industry leaders are all for animal ID, but are…
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Defund NAIS
According to Walter at <a href="http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/05/16/storm-alert-defund-nais/">noNAIS</a> Rep Ron Paul has introduced an amendment to H.R.5384, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007, that would defund National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>).<br />n<br />n<blockquote> AMENDMENT TO H.R., AS REPORTED<br />n (AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS, 2007)<br />n OFFERED BY MR.…