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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Wisconsin First State to Mandate Registration of Livestock
  • Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:25:07 -0700

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=6429

November 3, 2005

Wisconsin First State to Mandate Registration of Livestock


Livestock to be registered in WisconsinBy Staff

(AXcess News) Madison - Wisconsin became the first state in the nation
Tuesday to require registration of all places where livestock are kept.

Federal and state agriculture officials said the registration will help them
respond more quickly to animal disease outbreaks.

In fact, the livestock location system is the first of three steps planned in
many states and nationwide, said Dore Mobley, a spokeswoman for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Inspection Service.

The next will be to register all animals and the third is to track animals
throughout their lives, she said.

The Wisconsin Premises Registration Act requires all who board livestock to
register their premises, regardless of the kind and size of the operation.

Numerous animals are covered under the law including cattle, llamas, deer,
horses, goats, pheasants, exotic birds, chickens, turkeys, geese, ostriches,
sheep and swine.

Wisconsin received a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the USDA to develop
the system, which 35 other states are also moving toward adopting, said
Leanne Ketterhagen, spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Livestock Identification
Consortium.

The three steps are needed to respond to an animal disease outbreak within 48
hours, according to the consortium.

More than 22,000 people who board livestock have voluntarily registered since
the system was started in October 2003 in Wisconsin, but now all are being
required to participate, Ketterhagen said.

Terry Quam, who raises beef cattle and dairy heifers, said if officials have
good information about the animals' location, the size of a quarantine area
in the case of an outbreak could be greatly reduced.

But Dave Matthes, state chairman of the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund
of the United Stockgrowers of America, said current procedures are effective
in tracking diseased animals.

"We've traced back and stopped every disease," he said. "They haven't shown
what (disease) we're trying to protect against."

Source: Georgia Farm Bureau




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