Re [AT] Livestock ID (census)

[Clint D]

Mike

I totally agree with you in what you state below.

also. I think this program is really based on the fact that the Gov 
wants to make sure all the small owners stock can be tracked to keep up 
with the taxation. They think to many small time people are getting by 
selling a cow or two and not reporting it
You know, they need more money!
Clint


msm10301 at juno.com wrote:

>I'm not saying this is good or bad, but while you're sitting back, I'd hasten to add this. Name one government program that once implemented, has then gone away, gotten smaller, less intrusive, or less costly.  Mike
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>-- DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
>Well I went to the forum last night and just as  I thought a few people who 
>think that the government is going to take their  little pets away from them 
>are out there bad mouthing this with nothing more  than I told you so its big 
>government taking control of your lives. They have  nothing but BS on their side 
>they have no fact or figures or even know what the  system is all about. they 
>made up their minds as to the facts and without eve  looking at the real 
>facts. 
>so far all of this is voluntary you can either  join or not and you won't be 
>strung up by your heals if you don't. Every state  will have control of how 
>they tract the animals so you will need to get with  your state guy to see just 
>how your state is going to do this. Right now the  only thing in Oregon is to 
>voluntarily  register your premises (farm) they  are looking at ear tags that 
>can be read by a hand held device they cost about  $2.00 right now but as they 
>become more available that will surely drop. We tag  our animals now so 
>what's the big deal.
>You don't have to tell the government  every time that you go riding off the 
>premise with your horse you will need to  tell them if you sell it or move it 
>to another premise for permanent pasturing.  Dog, Cat and other pets are not 
>going to be tracked. Poultry will be tracked  by  by flocks not individually. 
>The little guy who has a cow and a calf and  two chickens and a pig will not be 
>bothered by this its for the guys who are in  the business of regularly  
>buying and selling farm animals. You register  your premise and tag your animals 
>and they do all the tracking. You call someone  if you are moving your heared 
>or selling a cow to a neighbor they come out and  track the animal no big deal 
>there we do that now with our branding program and  brucelous  tags and 
>tattooing.  
>As one said its all still in the  beginning stages and can change some as the 
>state man said last night its  getting easier not harder as they look at the 
>problems. They just want to know  where a sick animal came from within 48 
>hours so they quarantine the area until  its found to be clean. They are not going 
>to throw you in jail or take your  property just because you failed to follow 
>some little part of the  program.
>They only will have the number of the premise and number of the  animal or 
>flock in their data base they won't even know who owns it unless they  have a 
>sick animal and have to trace its background. 
>I not getting out my  shotgun and chasing the big bad government guys off 
>just yet, I'm going to sit  back and wait to se how it all comes out. 
>My suggestion is that the rest of  you stop following all those rumors about 
>the sky is falling and look into it  yourself go to one of these forums and 
>learn something on your own. Don't go to  some off the wall website made up by 
>people who think  the government is  going to take all their rights away no 
>matter what it is. We need to have this  system and make it work or we will not 
>be able to sell our products over seas  and that will really hurt us a lot more 
>than a small ear tag. 
>
>
>Walt  Davies
>Cooper Hollow Farm
>Monmouth, OR 97361
>503 623-0460  
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