Home Ag Blogs Kenny Fox

By A Web Design

Featured Auctions

May 29

Purple Wave: Ag Equipment Auction

Market snapshot

Sponsored by:

Snapshot as of previous day. Click here for current info

Are you getting the best cash price for your grain?
Enter your zip code:    



Kenny Fox
NAIS will hamper cattle disease traceback efforts
Ag Blogs - Kenny Fox
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 11:03
Billings, Mont. / Belvidere, S.D. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants cattle owners to register their real property, as well as each animal they own, in a new federal database. This is the first step in USDA’s plan to implement a National Animal Identification System (NAIS). USDA claims NAIS would reduce disease spread by shortening the time it takes to identify the birthplace of cattle suspected of disease.

If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is.
Read more...
 


Copyright © 2013 Kansas Ag Land. All Rights Reserved.
Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
 
You need to upgrade your Flash Player

Login Form



Explore Other Hutchinson, Kansas Sites