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It is official, we have just confirmed our 12th reporting barn for the big fall run. We now blanket the great Northern beef belt from Motely, Minnesota to Torrington, Wyoming.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, or maybe it’s just China checking on the cows. Welcome to this special Friday edition of the Hot Barn Report.
This week our nation was glued to their favorite news source, gripped by the big, white balloon that was meandering high above our land, on its cross-country adventure. Clearly the presence of this unwelcome air borne piece over the nation’s breadbasket, corn belt, and cattle country was cause for concern.
Ironically, earlier in the week, before the big, white balloon entered American airspace, R-CALF USA raised a parallel concern to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. In a letter penned by the cattle producer group, they raised the question, “Is the U.S. government trying to force American cattle farmers and ranchers to purchase RFID eartags from foreign countries such as the Peoples Republic of China, which is under the control of the Communist Party of China?”
Don’t think that it hasn’t already been tried. In July of 2020 it was found that foreign shipments of millions of RFID cattle eartags the USDA had purchased from foreign manufacturers were delayed, and that this disrupted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to distribute millions of those tags to United States cattlemen and cattlewomen to bait them into using the foreign-made RFID eartags on their U.S.-origin cattle.
Today, the websites of two of the eight manufacturers that the government has approved as suppliers of RFID eartags for U.S. cattle producers do not contain any origin information. The USDA provided the names of the ear tag manufacturers that they approved to be suppliers in its newly proposed rule to force America’s cattle producers to purchase approximately $30 million of these specific tags each year.
China’s investment in American ag land has ruffled the feathers of many state and federal lawmakers. We should also be paying attention to our dependence on foreign suppliers of our ag products, especially if those products in question store valuable domestic cattle herd data in electronic chips contained within them.
While we all await a reply from Secretary Vilsack I think it is up to all of us stay engaged on this issue. You can be preparing your own response that you can submit on the federal register while this comment period is open during this rule making process. Keep raising the concern to our own lawmakers and the USDA, “Do we really want China or any foreign country checking on our cows?”
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, lets send some love to These Diamond Dozen Hot Barns that power this program: Stockmens Livestock, Lemmon Livestock, North Platte Stockyards, St. Onge/Newell, Platte Livestock Market, Tri County Stockyards, Torrington Livestock, Creighton Livestock Market, Bassett Livestock Auction, Mobridge Livestock, Ogallala Livestock Auction Market, and Presho Livestock. Catch them all on CattleUSA.com.
BREAKING NEWS
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced the American Beef Labeling Act, legislation that would reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) for beef. [READ MORE]
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