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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: <avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] NAIS
  • Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:06:44 -0600

Cattle, pens, crowding area, squeeze chute for inserting tags– lots of money.

 

Tags, applicator, reader? Who knows what else? 

 

Lots and lots of records – whatever the government is saying, you can probably multiply by 10

 

Cattle going to sale barns and then to CAFO facilities are a quite different story.  Direct marketers should be exempt

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brigette Leach
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:01 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] NAIS

 

Forgive me Alison, I don't know what species you raise.  What handling facilities would it require? What paraphernalia? Fill me in.

What about family farmers who do sell at stockyards? Not all small farms sell directly to the customer.
Brigette
Avalon Farms Homegrown

Wiediger, Alison wrote:

We DO want trace-back on CAFO animals.  We HAVE trace-back on ours -
they go directly from us to the processor to the customer - can't get
much more direct tracing than that.  It's not that NAIS is all bad, it
needs an exemption for small holders who raise animals that are marketed
directly to the customer.  For us, it would require expensive handling
facilities that we don't have and can't afford on our scale as well as
buying the tags and all the paraphernalia that will be required and
keeping non-useful records.
 
Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm
 
-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lynn
Wigglesworth
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:56 AM
To: avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net; Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] NAIS
 
From: "Brigette Leach"
  
We all wanted trace back when the recent e-coli outbreak occurred. Why
resist a method of trace back on animal products so vehemently?
    
 
 
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