SE Manitoba | timbernt - 7/10/2020 07:00
Another cost will be the loss of markets. A good number of market owners will be unwilling or unable to comply. Those markets will close and the producer loses an opportunity. Then we have a Nielson with a market monopoly. I would think market competition should be at the forefront in our thinking. In the case of the market I work in, the sale starts at 12:00 noon. With 1500 feeders needing to be documented and tagged in a 3 to 4 hour time frame in 90 degree Missouri July weather, how does it happen? How many calves are going to overheat and die. That is a cost born by the producer thru LMA insurance which will increase.
Well traceability has made a lot more government boffins a paycheck and created at least one more ngo agency that packs a mountain of dead wood and loves their obsolete software and hardware! |
We need mandatory livestock traceabillity
