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INCENTIVES for the VETS. Washington State Vets will be paid $10.00 to register your premises.
The Washington State Dairy Federation will get an INCENTIVE of $10.00 for each Premises they sign
up.
Attention Washington Residents due to your lack of Particpation and lack of Unity 5204
PASSED.
Have your papers with you, if not be prepared to FORK over $1,000.00 per day per incidenance. They
will stop you due to NAIS, NAIS is money to the cities coffiers. No Mis-information, No Mis-understanding, Just facts!
The director may establish points of inspection for vehicles
9 transporting animals on the public roads of this state to determine if
10 the animals being transported are accompanied by valid health
11 certificates, permits, or other documents as required by this chapter
12 or its rules. Vehicles transporting animals on the public roads of
13 this state are subject to inspection and must stop at any posted
14 inspection point established by the director. The director or
15 appointed officers are authorized to stop a vehicle transporting
16 animals upon the public roads of this state at a place other than an
17 inspection point if there is reasonable cause to believe the animals
18 are being transported in violation of this chapter or its rules.
Washington Senate Bill 5204- its wake up time people This bill passed!!!!
See how people are questioning this bill.
What this means that it has been forward to a committee of livestock advisors
The director will decide who is to be on this board
House Bill 1151 (Prohibiting the state from establishing or participating in
an animal identification
system.):
Amendment offered by Rep. Joel Kretz on March 12, 2007, to make changes
regarding the livestock identification
advisory committee. The amendment
passed in the House by voice vote on March 12, 2007, to make changes
regarding the
livestock identification advisory committee.
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From the Capital Press : 10-15-06
The Washington State Department of Agriculture has sent letters to
several
livestock organizations in the state, asking for help in registering private
land where animals are raised,
part of an animal identification system
that's being considered.
In the letters, the
WSDA offers to pay the organization $10 for each
premises registration it obtains by the end of the year. Registering
is free
and voluntary for landowners, but participation in the program has been
lagging.
The letters are part
of a WSDA campaign to boost participation in the
program, Chris Spaulding, an animal identification specialist with the
department
in Olympia, said in a telephone interview.
The money to pay the groups for the registrations
comes from a $141,000
grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help the state with an
intensive outreach project
supporting animal identification efforts. The
grant is also earmarked for 4-H, FFA, Cooperative Extension and other
education
about the proposed National Animal Identification System, known as
NAIS.
Other states are using a similar tactic
to boost enrollments, Spaulding
said. And the USDA may also give it a try.
Spaulding declined to discuss premises
registration targets, saying earlier
estimates of the number of premises in the state may have been overstated.
Last
month Spaulding told Capital Press that out of an estimated 12,000
cattle premises in Washington, about 1,000 had been
registered, or about 8
percent. The WSDA had hoped 25 percent of the landowners would sign up by
January 2007.
Since
then, premises registrations are up about 10 percent, Spaulding said.
Premises registration
is the first step in a plan that aims to register
private land where animals are located, and then to identify and track
movement
of the animals.
The Washington State Dairy Federation will participate in the program to
help the WSDA register
premises, said Jay Gordon, a dairy producer and
executive director of the federation in Elma.
Jack Field, executive
vice president of the Washington Cattlemen's
Association, said the WCA executive committee would likely discuss the
WSDA's
offer at its Oct. 17 meeting.
At least one organization, the Cattle Producers of Washington,
has turned
down the WSDA offer.
"It is very discouraging that WSDA is failing
to listen to its constituency
on this issue and seems intent on forging ahead with a program that is so
widely opposed
by cattle producers," Lee Engelhardt, a Moses Lake cow-calf
producer and CPoW president, said in an news release.
Engelhardt
said producers need to know more about the proposed program and
how it will be managed, as well as its costs and benefits.
Why is the USDA hiding the program from the public? Why is the media not reporting of this program?
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