Allfarmer---You are right. After the heavy but exciting work in Dec & Jan getting the word out across Saskatchewan about a Pasture Patron meeting in Saskatoon that was very successfull on Jan 23 2013 some people were able to escape for a 1 week rest.
Heifers are bagging up so just came in from the morning check.
15455---you are correct. In the last 4 years and through all this RFID, Scanning, unknown laws, fine threats many of my neighbors that were in the cattle business just threw up their hands and left the business. Past chairman of the CCIA were on the news giving FALSE PROPAGANDA statements regarding the RFID eartag. Back in 2009 & 2010 many were PFRA pasture patrons. that just threw up their hands and said "THE COWS ARE GOING DOWN THE ROAD". There comments were "WHAT THE FXXX is coming next". Scanning and retagging every time we move the cattle around. FINES now. What Button Gestapo will be stopping trucks and looking in to see if tags are missing in my animals in the trailer??
The history for those of us in PFRA pastures were you got into a pasture with a 10 head allotment. Kept applying each year and slowly with a 2 head increase or so built up your allotment to about 30 head. Suddenly the phone calls came from the pasture managers. We need more cattle. Do you want 25 head increase or total up to your maximum quota. Why? The first wave of Pasture patrons baled out of the business.
Back to my case in 2010. CFIA is not the enemy. It is the CCIA (with fat headed cattlemen sitting at the board level) and the CCA and SCA and other cattlemen groups that are the enemy.
CFIA was "foolish" to show up in that court room that day. They could of made me spend time and $$$ on my own research and submit prefiled evidence like I did in Triplicate to meet the dead-lines leading up to the case.
Learning from my years with SAPL and From CAEPLA when one goes into a hearing against a pipeline company "GIANT" that one does not expect to win the outcome of the hearing. Be prepared to go into a hearing, spend your own time and effort, be your own legal counsel, learn along the way but the hearing is usually not in your favor. BUT. It is a path for others to follow and it can be written about for years to come and put in the media.
Surprisely I won my case, But CFIA or the cattlemen groups in part of the 3 stooges act forgot to do one thing.
Offer cost recovery, CFIA in the Anaplasmosis case in BC paid huge $$ to certain ranches but there was a "Gag Clause". In my case NO APOLOGY and No COST RECOVERY. So this story will keep popping up as long as I own the cow.
Today IMHO I watch the same personnel that appear/or are the government advisors to both the Federal and Provincial Ministers of AG. They are the same frontrunners in how the PFRA pastures divesting process appears to be taking place. Little thought process in place and so many little operators (mixed farmers) in my area are threatened to be pushed out of the cattle business. WHY? So many jobs lost which means young families in many rural communities now at risk.
THERE IS AN OLD SAYING. "you want to keep your friends close" "But you want to keep your enemies even closer"
Heifers are bagging up so just came in from the morning check.
15455---you are correct. In the last 4 years and through all this RFID, Scanning, unknown laws, fine threats many of my neighbors that were in the cattle business just threw up their hands and left the business. Past chairman of the CCIA were on the news giving FALSE PROPAGANDA statements regarding the RFID eartag. Back in 2009 & 2010 many were PFRA pasture patrons. that just threw up their hands and said "THE COWS ARE GOING DOWN THE ROAD". There comments were "WHAT THE FXXX is coming next". Scanning and retagging every time we move the cattle around. FINES now. What Button Gestapo will be stopping trucks and looking in to see if tags are missing in my animals in the trailer??
The history for those of us in PFRA pastures were you got into a pasture with a 10 head allotment. Kept applying each year and slowly with a 2 head increase or so built up your allotment to about 30 head. Suddenly the phone calls came from the pasture managers. We need more cattle. Do you want 25 head increase or total up to your maximum quota. Why? The first wave of Pasture patrons baled out of the business.
Back to my case in 2010. CFIA is not the enemy. It is the CCIA (with fat headed cattlemen sitting at the board level) and the CCA and SCA and other cattlemen groups that are the enemy.
CFIA was "foolish" to show up in that court room that day. They could of made me spend time and $$$ on my own research and submit prefiled evidence like I did in Triplicate to meet the dead-lines leading up to the case.
Learning from my years with SAPL and From CAEPLA when one goes into a hearing against a pipeline company "GIANT" that one does not expect to win the outcome of the hearing. Be prepared to go into a hearing, spend your own time and effort, be your own legal counsel, learn along the way but the hearing is usually not in your favor. BUT. It is a path for others to follow and it can be written about for years to come and put in the media.
Surprisely I won my case, But CFIA or the cattlemen groups in part of the 3 stooges act forgot to do one thing.
Offer cost recovery, CFIA in the Anaplasmosis case in BC paid huge $$ to certain ranches but there was a "Gag Clause". In my case NO APOLOGY and No COST RECOVERY. So this story will keep popping up as long as I own the cow.
Today IMHO I watch the same personnel that appear/or are the government advisors to both the Federal and Provincial Ministers of AG. They are the same frontrunners in how the PFRA pastures divesting process appears to be taking place. Little thought process in place and so many little operators (mixed farmers) in my area are threatened to be pushed out of the cattle business. WHY? So many jobs lost which means young families in many rural communities now at risk.
THERE IS AN OLD SAYING. "you want to keep your friends close" "But you want to keep your enemies even closer"
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