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Welcome to America’s Hot Barn Report now heard coast to coast and border to border
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.
Disease prevention starts at the border! Thanks for tuning in to this special Friday edition of the Hot Barn Report.
Ag media is all a buzz with the news that broke last week of a BSE case in Brazil. It just doesn’t seem like our counterparts to the south can get their stuff straight and follow global cattle health protocols in a timely fashion. Countries are supposed to report cases of certain diseases within 24 hours of identification. This time Brazilian officials kept themselves busy or in denial for 35 days before reporting! Our US Department of Ag has been hush-hush and US imports of beef from Brazil have been unphased, while China has said, “No more Brazilian Beef,” at least for a while.
The South American cattle industry has also been under the watchful eye from those keeping guard against the extremely contagious Foot and Mouth disease. While some South American countries are considered FMD free with vaccination, their borders with countries with no designation is cause for caution. Lest we not forget about Brazil’s wait around and see approach to reporting BSE cases, their prevention of another FMD outbreak should be in question.
Honestly, a bunch of mothers of school age children could probably do a better job handling disease prevention in our cattle industry. When my kid gets sick, I don’t send them to school with cold medicine to pass around to everyone she comes into contact with. NO, I keep them home, away from their healthy peers! I don’t send them to school with an identification device like an ear tag to hand out to everyone they come in contact with, like saying “tag you’re it, you have the virus of the month.” NO, I keep them home.
If we do not currently have FMD and BSE in the USA right now, any mother will tell you the best thing we can do is KEEP IT OUT!
So why does the USDA continue to press this issue of imposing mandatory EID tags on our domestic cattle industry? During the month of November and December, 2022, the USDA reported that we imported 231,000 of LIVE CATTLE from Mexico, in a 60-day period! Will Mexican or Canadian producers ever have to buy USDA EID tags to put into cattle crossing the border. So why should we?
Will Brazilian producers have to put USDA EID tags in cattle down there to prove their premise of origin? So why should we? A tag does absolutely zero to prevent a disease outbreak in the United States! Preventing disease outbreaks starts at our BORDERS and with more scrutiny by our USDA to protect our domestic cattle industry and consumers.
Let’s give a shoutout 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.
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