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USDA takes another run at mandating electronic ear tags, pointing to increasing livestock and food security risks

January 20, 2023
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for […]

R-CALF calls on Congress to stop USDA from mandating electronic ear tags

January 6, 2023
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a six-year battle and after losing an appeal that challenged a Trump administration proposal to mandate the use of radio frequency identification of animals in interstate […]

NCBA files comments on another proposed mandate of USDA electronic ID ear tags

April 20, 2023
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Dakota rancher Todd Wilkinson doesn’t see the use of USDA electronic identification ear tags as a threat. Rather he sees is as risk protection. Wilkinson, of […]

SD Stockgrowers to hold rally against USDA electronic identification mandate

September 20, 2024
Agriculture

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The South Dakota Stockgrowers (SDSGA) will host a “Freedom Rally” in Rapid City, Oct. 7, 2024, to kick off it’s annual convention at the Ramkota Hotel […]

Another effort underway to block mandatory EID tags

August 8, 2024
Agriculture

BILLINGS, MT – The United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) announced their support of a joint resolution in Congress to block the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) rule mandating […]

Efforts to overturn USDA’s electronic eartag mandate

June 21, 2024
Agriculture

BILLINGS, MT – The final rule mandating the exclusive use of EID eartags as the only type of official eartags recognized by APHIS on adult cattle shipped interstate is scheduled […]

Electronic I.D. Rule Pushed In Wake Of Dairy Virus

April 29, 2024
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Service issued a Final Rule on traceability of sexually intact cattle and bison 18 months of age or older, all […]

Assault & Global Conspiracies: Ranchers testify at legislative committee hearing over animal ID

February 17, 2023
Agriculture

PIERRE, S.D. – Ranchers lodged accusations against a state board Thursday at the Capitol in Pierre, and a legislative committee advanced a bill to change the way the board members […]

R-CALF challenges assertion that electronic ear tag mandate is tied to livestock, food safety or markets

January 20, 2023
Agriculture

BILLINGS, MT – Long-time opponent to USDA’s continued efforts to mandate electronic identification of cattle, Bill Bullard, R-CALF USA CEO said the agency’s Thursday announcement is intended to serve the […]

State vet Odekoven talks about next move for electronic animal identification

January 6, 2020
Agriculture

PIERRE, SD – After the U.S. Department of Agriculture officials back-pedaled on yet another plan to replace visual tags with radio-frequency tracking for cattle moving interstate, the most pressing question […]