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Animal Disease Traceability Too Expensive, Rural Coalition Says

By Dan Flynn on June 8, 2012

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…
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Animal Traceability Comment Period Extended

By News Desk on October 10, 2011

Procrastinators are getting an extra 30 days to get their comments in on the new animal traceability rule.

USDA published a notice Friday officially extending the comment period to Dec. 9, moving the deadline forward…

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USDA Has New Scheme to Trace Animal Disease

By Dan Flynn on August 10, 2011

For most of the past decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

tried to get farmers and ranchers to accept the National Animal

Identification System (NAIS) without success.

NAIS

was to be a high tech solution…

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NAIS Dead, Food Safety Not A Goal

By Dan Flynn on February 11, 2010

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack killed the $142 million National Animal Identification System (NAIS), and any hope it might contribute to food safety, last week.

At a meeting of state agriculture commissioners, Vilsack said the NAIS…

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Ag Groups Call for Death to NAIS

By Dan Flynn on December 2, 2009

One cannot help but wonder if the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has bitten off more than it can chew when it comes to tracking animals.

Five years and $147 million after USDA opted to…

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Letter From The Editor

By Dan Flynn on November 22, 2009

The first daily newspaper I worked for was about 1,200 miles and a couple of mountain ranges away from where I grew up and went to college.

About half the population of this little city…

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NAIS: Simpler Technology Fuels Fire

By William Pape on November 14, 2009

No sooner have most people pronounced NAIS dead-on-arrival, than a number of recent events may have breathed life back into the U.S.A.’s National Animal Identification Scheme. A combination of market forces aligned with a simplified…

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Technology Aids Traceability

By Suzanne Schreck on September 18, 2009

In a new white paper published by TraceGains and HCL America, authors William Pape of TraceGains and Ravi Sankar of HCL Technologies Limited offer an analysis of the business implications associated with traceability as required…

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