Happy November agrivillers! Its too early to hibernate yet.
I hauled a few cattle to market today and didn't have my premises ID handy for the manifest and it was accepted without. But it got me to thinking of what kind of ??? game the government is playing with cattle people. My ranch has a physical road address and the home 1/4 section is identified in the finest agricultural land survey grid in the world. My location is very well documented but they don't want that information. Instead they want me to give them back the meaningless PID number that they gave me! I say meaningless because it has no apparent connection with any physical landmarks and it can be used from different locations. Why don't they just keep it and say "oh yes these cattle are from Mr. ABC and we gave him PID# XYZ."? But I guess that wouldn't give them confirmation of our compliant attitude. It is a weird circular game that these traceability regulators are drawing us into with very little relevance to the real world IMO.
Anyway for anyone that cares I did find my PID. It is at the top of this post. I guess if anybody else wants to use it there is nothing I can do.
I hauled a few cattle to market today and didn't have my premises ID handy for the manifest and it was accepted without. But it got me to thinking of what kind of ??? game the government is playing with cattle people. My ranch has a physical road address and the home 1/4 section is identified in the finest agricultural land survey grid in the world. My location is very well documented but they don't want that information. Instead they want me to give them back the meaningless PID number that they gave me! I say meaningless because it has no apparent connection with any physical landmarks and it can be used from different locations. Why don't they just keep it and say "oh yes these cattle are from Mr. ABC and we gave him PID# XYZ."? But I guess that wouldn't give them confirmation of our compliant attitude. It is a weird circular game that these traceability regulators are drawing us into with very little relevance to the real world IMO.
Anyway for anyone that cares I did find my PID. It is at the top of this post. I guess if anybody else wants to use it there is nothing I can do.
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