NAIS Will Hurt the Livestock Auction Barn Business-From Austin *Listening Tour*

National Animal Identification System
Larry Butler -hurt the auction barn business due to all these people who have a few head of cows, 80 years old, they sell 4 or 5 a year to help supplement their income and she says I can't do it and I don't know what I'm going to do because I can't afford to lose my ag on the land and I can't afford to lose that income .. whole idea of that big money wanting to get rid of that middleman... a whole lot of money that can be scraped right off the top of the cream right here . Nobody wants infected animals, Texas Animal Health Commissions been doing this for a hundred years I think cattle, sheep all of them need to be blood tested-they go to the slaughterhouse, blood tested again.You got a traceability right there and if the european countries aren't happy with blood tests, slaughterhouse inspections.. nothing's going to make them happy

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• Austin
• TX
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• Livestock
• Auction
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• small
• farms