Recent content by Van Dyke

Boy, you must have the reading level of a 10-year old!! This is just pissing me off!! What exactly is your point? Yes, we do have sale barn receipts on them, they have the descriptions of the the cattle which are very vague. I posted that already. Things happen in production and if you were...

[/b] That is what we would like to know. I don't think Swift can even account for them. Afterall we have not gotten a copy of the official USDA findings on how the cattle were co-mingled at the kill plant.

The rest of our cattle were federally inspected and no other CDN tags were found.

We have received nothing from the USDA. They have not sent us a copy of the investigation. The only findings that we got about the investigation from the USDA was released to the media.

I would like to say READ THE WORDS as they are, don't fabricate something different from what you are reading. Read and reread the posts to make sure you comprehend before typing something. This is part of the reason why stuff gets blown out of proportion. Too many times when a debate isn't...

On the sale barn invoices they give a very brief description of the cattle that includes the sex, and color. (An example of this is BLK-STR or CHAR-HEF) Other than that they give the sellers id number, pen number, the number purchased, ave weight, total weight, $ per head and $ per CWT. There...

Did you know that it was actuallly 8 head of cattle that were condemned and went to the landfill. On our photos that were provided by Swift of the 43 cattle that were supposed to be on our load 8 head had Canadian ear tags that you can visibly see and one of those eight had an electronic tag...

Would you please tell me why the story was released on January 15 and we had a check dated to us for the rest of the load and offal on January 19??? Seems like stuff was rolling pretty fast. Especially since nothing had been happening in the previous 47 days. I thought the system had a mandatory...

Could you tell us just how involved R-CALF was in this issue? We are in contact with R-CALF it seems on a daily basis. We are constantly giving them updates on the case and what is going on in the media. R-CALF itself has not made or given any press releases that I am aware of about this...

Expand on your camera ideal. Where did you want cameras at and do you think it would be of high enough quality to determine Canadian cattle?

There were a few of the cattle that had brands on them but we never noticed a CN brand on the hip. East River South Dakota is not in a brand inspection part of the state so our cattle are not required to be brand inspected, however we do have our own registered brand. In a normal year we brand...

It's late here and getting lost in my thoughts. I'll respond to more questions tomarrow when I get time.

Yes, indeed we do end up naming a few of them. These particular cattle were fed on grass all summer long by towing a wagon and scooping ground corn to them. Call us old fashioned but that is the way we do it and have been doing it for as long as I remember and probably for as long as my father...

You probably wouldn't believe me, you never have tried to contact a U.S. senator or congressman. When you call you get one of their aids and usually the aid never passes on the message because they think it isn't worthy of the politician's time.

We stil have not received a copy of the investigation. The only story we have received from the USDA is the stuff that has come out in the media. We have not officially heard anything from the USDA. In fact nobody from the USDA really wants to talk to us.