Northview Diary

Or is it going to spring up again in some other form ? "After concluding our listening tour on the National Animal Identification Syst...

I found the link to this information on the Livestock Marketing Association website. The actual document is a pdf so... I am sure there i...

Two links to Cattle Trader stores. One is a Chuck Jolley column on the popularity of the National Animal Identification system....or the o...

Here is the transcript of a Q&A session with Tom Vilsack. ...(except that it wasn't with Vilsack). To me it looks like a lot more o...

Chuck Jolley interview with Rhonda Perry . Well worth a read!

On the farm these days? Birding is a daily delight. The wrens keep things interesting having fits every time we go out on the sitting porch...

... .are offered by these ladies . Cattle Network has run a long and aggravating series of pro-NAIS articles, mostly interviewing government...

Frosting...the heifers are in from the hill Liquorice ...(I think) Mandy Bama Breeze ***Notice that only Bama and Mandy still have ear tags,...

Here is the story of a farmer who defied NAIS, so the state came in and RFID tagged his cows under a court order. (What part of voluntary ...

That the United States had a serious foot and mouth disease scare this summer? This story proved something something many of the serious f...

( Although maybe only until Hillary has her hand on the throttle. ) According to this story in the Des Moines Register , even Collin Peters...

"The eartag hole shows how easy those eartags can be lost, even by goofy looking cows." Lee, a local reader, saw the ...

with this picture? Update: I guess I need to be clearer. I have some great answers, but I specifically mean what is wrong with the picture ...

Good stuff here ! Watch the videos if you get a chance.

Isn't it amazing that the Holstein Association is in favor of national animal ID ? (Well, no, it isn't all that surprising....They...

From Drovers Magazine , " A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report requested by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and released today fo...

With R-Calf

If you are a farmer that is, and not too fond of NAIS (National Animal Identification System)? Just read this story on Cattle Network.com....

Just in case you think National Animal Identification is harmless read this story about a farmer in Great Britain whose records are alleg...

Just as the USDA kinda, sorta, maybe caved into pressure from farmers and ranchers and made National Animal ID a voluntary program, some *...