The Cattle Business Weekly
For cattlemen, by cattlemen is this podcast bringing you the latest in cattle industry headlines straight from the news desk of The Cattle Business Weekly in South Dakota. It's a dose of what's happening in markets, on the ranch and in Washington, D.C. It's news about everything that impacts a cattle operation's bottomline (aka profit). Listen to us in the feed truck, on the way to a cattle sale or on the porch with a beer! We promise you won't go away without having learned something.
The Cattle Business Weekly
State Conspiracies Don't Change Federal Policies
Editorial by Eric Jennings, SDCA Past President It’s puzzling how much attention the new traceability rule that requires electronic identification (EID) tags is garnering now that it has been fully implemented. I am puzzled because the time for attention would have been during the comment period when the rule was proposed. To recap, disease traceability rules have been in place since 2013, and the current version of the rule, updating the type of tag required, was proposed in January of 2023 and wasn’t finalized until April of 2024. Those15 months would have been time to get involved in the...