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NE ag director concerned with animal traceability plan

Nebraska director of agriculture Greg Ibach has some concerns with the USDA’s new animal traceability plan, under which states would be responsible for managing—and funding—traceability programs. 

“Depending on what USDA’s baseline expectations are of a state, we could be very impacted,” Ibach says, “and in a time when budget resources are at high demand, we’re concerned that a program could be implemented that would cost our state, and our state’s producers, a significant amount of money.”

There are also questions involving the movement of animals from state to state.

“It would appear that states will be responsible for being able to provide traceability to their state’s border,” Ibach says, “and it will then be up to a state to determine how much more traceability within the borders of the state that we would work with producers to provide.”

Earlier this year, USDA announced that it is scrapping the National Animal ID system in favor of the new state-directed traceability program. 

AUDIO: Greg Ibach (2 min MP3)

  • Traceability ??? Come on – the people in Nebraska don’t even have traceability on the bribes and payouts that go to their Senator and their state – of which they think nothing about! Because they want special treatment (that the rest of us would pay for) THEN…..they come up with this “manure” about being concerned about the USDA’s new animal traceability plan! Oh come on now….

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