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A botanist friend of mine here has been considering early 
retirement. He works for APHIS, checking agricultural 
products as they come through, mostly looking for plant 
disease, which is his specialty. He used to oversee 14 
junior botanists, but *they were all tapped for Homeland 
Security* so he is trying to do the work of many and is 
stressed out. I cannot understand why the government 
wanted that many botanists in Homeland Security. Any 
ideas?

--Sage

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:52:29 -0700 (PDT)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> NAIS, APHIS Over 50% Preemises registerd in 13 states
>
> "
> 10/23/2008 1:04:00 PM 
>
>
> Animal ID: 13 States Now Exceed 50 Percent Premises 
> Registered
>
>
>
> WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2008--The U.S. Department of 
> Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
> (APHIS) today announced that 487,670 premises are 
> registered nationwide as part of the National Animal 
> Identification System (NAIS).
>  
> Producers registered more than 50,000 premises so far in 
> 2008 and 13 states now have at least 50 percent of their 
> total estimated production premises registered through 
> NAIS.  The latest state to go over 50 percent premises 
> registration is Iowa.
>
> “Premises registration is the foundation of the NAIS and 
> allows us to better respond to animal health events in 
> the United States,” said Bruce Knight, under secretary of 
> USDA’s marketing and regulatory programs.  “The growth in 
> premises registrations this year demonstrates that 
> producers want to work with USDA to protect their 
> animals, their livelihood and their communities.  I 
> applaud those who have made the choice to register their 
> premises.”
>
>
>
> The 13 states that have topped the 50 percent mark are 
> Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Massachusetts, Nebraska, 
> Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Utah, West 
> Virginia and Wisconsin.  Illinois is very close to the 50 
> percent mark, with 48.3 percent of its estimated 30,046 
> premises registered.
>
>
>
> Delaware now has more than 40 percent of its premises 
> registered, while Alaska, Colorado and North Carolina now 
> have more than 30 percent of their premises registered. 
> Several other states have made significant gains in the 
> number of premises registered.  During 2008, Mississippi 
> tripled the number of registered premises, while Ohio 
> more than doubled the number of registered premises in 
> the state.  The number of registered premises in Alabama 
> and South Carolina increased by more than 150 percent. 
> Direct mail and outreach efforts to farmers and ranchers 
> continue this fall to encourage additional registrations.
>
>
>
> USDA is working cooperatively with states, tribes and 
> industry partners to implement NAIS, which is a modern, 
> streamlined information system that helps producers 
> respond quickly and effectively to animal disease events. 
> It consists of three components:  premises registration, 
> animal identification and tracing.  The premises 
> registration component of NAIS ensures the availability 
> of a nationwide communications network to assist 
> producers and animal health officials in the event of an 
> animal disease event.  There is an estimated 1.4 million 
> production premises in the United States.  To contact a 
> partner or find out more about NAIS, go to 
> www.usda.gov/NAIS."
>
> http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=262959
>
> *******************************************************************
>
> Also;
>
>
> US Customs to start enforcing APHIS
>
> Starting tomorrow, Sept.30, 2008, US Customs and Border 
> Protection will begin to monitor transit movements of 
> agricultural commodities going across the border. The 
> action is part of a Memorandum of Agreement between the 
> U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department 
> of Homeland Security (DHS).
>
> All shipments of admissible, restricted, and prohibited 
> plants and plant products moving as Transportation and 
> Exportation (T&E), Immediate Export (IE), and Immediate 
> Transfer at the time of entry (with the exception of cut 
> flowers under the National Cut Flowers Release Program), 
> will require a USDA-APHIS PPQ transit permit.
>
> In addition, importers will be required to provide 
> documentation to include invoices, phytosanitary 
> certificates, shipper export declarations, outbound 
> manifests, etc. as requested by CBP Agriculture.
>
> It also requires annotating the APHIS permit number on 
> the CBP 7512 (or equivalent QP style electronic 
> transmission) in the "description and quantity of 
> merchandise" block. Additionally, most APHIS transit 
> permits will require the movement to be completed within 
> 4 days, CBP explains in a notice to the industry.
>
> Immediate Transportation (IT) shipments are not affected 
> by this APHIS announcement and will continue to be 
> processed in accordance with existing guidelines. 
>
>
> Source: todaystrucking.com
>
> http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=29738
>
>
>
>      
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