Some interesting points that you are trying to make but honestly they are hard to follow cattleman2.Perhaps we could offer to send Canada some English teachers in exchange for some of that oil.
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You are wrong cattleman2- This is a health issue...Its part of a continuing quarantine the US imposed on Canadian cattle started by the finding of 10 BSE positive cows...It is all one continuing disease outbreak...And if Canada doesn't want to hold up their end of the agreement- and assist in the investigation- fine...But that spells the death of Rule 2, if not also a strong court argument to end the import of all live cattle...
Then if a Canadian live animal is found in the US- we will know it was smuggled across the line....
Isn't it funny that this came to USDA's attention Nov. 29th- and they finally issue a press release!!! They are trying a cover-up, but it will backfire on them....
USDA investigating cattle sale
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating whether Canadian cattle were bought in a South Dakota sale barn and sold to a packer in Nebraska.
The USDA does not allow selling Canadian cattle on the open market, such as at a livestock sale barn.
Jim Rogers, a USDA spokesman in Washington, D.C., said Friday that the agency is looking into the situation but could not provide details.
According to a news release from the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, a South Dakota rancher purchased the cattle at an auction barn in South Dakota and sold them to a slaughter plant in Nebraska.
The packers would not pay him for seven head of cattle because, they said, the cattle were from Canada. Seven head of the 87 sold to the packer had Canadian ear tags.
The innards of all 43 head in the same semi, including the disputed seven, were condemned for an estimated loss of $11,000, according to officials with the Stockgrowers Association and the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund.
The USDA allows importing feeder cattle under 30 months of age, but only if they are in sealed trucks transported to an identified feedlot.
"They are then to remain in the identified feedlot until they are hauled to a slaughter plant in a sealed truck," Rick Fox, president of the Stockgrowers Association, said in a news release.
The rancher had purchased the cattle assuming that they were U.S. cattle, Fox said.
Rogers said the USDA wants to make sure no regulations were violated.
Sam Holland, South Dakota's state veterinarian, said Friday it appears the cattleman did nothing wrong but somehow wound up with Canadian cattle.
"Many of us are concerned about the way the investigation is being handled," Holland said.
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it's looking like a canadian forced an american to smuggle canadian cattle across the border. the american govt. should run down this canadian scoundrel and deport him to syria so he can be tortured. the canadian govt. should be forced to compensate all american victims of this canadian crime.
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The border import rule/quarantine- and Canadas agreement to participate in it....
The US cattlemen were told that the cattle would have to be tagged with Canadian tags- US import tags- and hot iron branded as a triple safeguard to prevent them from going where they were not supposed to--This was all part of reduction in the quarantine the US put on Canada...Now Canada says it doesn't have to cooperate with the investigation when the US found a violation of the quarantine.....
The USDA asked the Canadians for eartag ID info about Canadian cattle violating the US quarantine/rule- and now Canada says we don't have to play with you...
I say fine- because thats what I'm telling my Congressman too- Canada doesn't want to play by the rules- so lets take the ball and go home...
We definitely can't go forward with Rule 2 because we have no guarantee or show of good faith they will cooperate 5 years down the line if we need help with some of those cattle...
Canadian cattlemen are crapping in their own nest...
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Seems if your the one that wants it so bad- you could do your own researching.
If you weren't in such a hurry you could go to the USDA website and find the live cattle import rules as well as I could...LOL
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Your name fits you-- Patience my boy--you will get to see enough of it in the court briefs in the weeks and months to come....
Canada has shown they don't take seriously the US cattle quarantine or the agreement that moderated that quarantine and allowed live cattle imports...
The Courts and Congressmen will be where my attention is now focused- not some hyper Canadian.....
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