A coalition led by farmers and ranchers is using a last-minute strategy to stop USDA’s new Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program. The groups involved are using economic grounds – especially the added costs that animal identification will impose on rural America. In a 9-page letter to the Executive Office of
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Going Without Animal ID Will Be Costly, Study Says
If rural America kicks the lite version of animal identification (ID) to the curb just as it did the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), an economic study says export markets for U.S. beef and pork will be much smaller.
Funded by the U.S. Meat Export Federation and authored by five
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Second Go at Animal Disease Traceability Hits Bumps
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is experiencing a hailstorm of opposition to its new animal disease traceability system as the proposal reaches the halfway point in the comment period that ends November 9.
The replacement for the ill-fated National Animal Identification System, which was so unpopular with rural
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