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C'mon guys, don't let science or logic get in the way of RCALF. MCOOL is great, just ask RCALF. If you don't agree, they will surely help you see the error of your ways.

Since things are going so well for the livestock industry, I was wondering where to send a thankyou note to RCALF for killing the independent hog man with MCOOL? Only folks making it work well are the big guys...maybe that was RCALFS plan??

Nice job with the MCOOL, guys; it's now virtually impossible to market Canadian born, US raised hogs around here. This last batch of Canadian pigs has been the healthiest we've ever raised, but are gonna cost us big time. I just have to tell myself that it's for my own good. I'm sure the...

Like I've said, it's possible at the plant, but the number of actions to keep track of this as the product moves thru' the system becomes quite unwieldly. One plant I deal with would print well over 100,000 barcodes per day with this system. That is before it's sliced and diced to make retail...

Repackaging meat at a retail store is almost none existent and is regulated when it is. The only real world issue of segregation is at the processing plant. Wrong! Check out some of the major food retailers! Check and see what is actually being shipped out of a slaughter plant. Not all...

If the retailer isn't able to read the label on a box and then affix a like label on a smaller package ( a skill taught on Sesame Street), they can specify the country of origin when they order their beef so they only have one country's product in their store. This isn't rocket science. How...

Again, it's not the packers where the problem lies....read my posts. It's the retailer. Did your retail hydraulic pump customers have to keep track and label the pump according to which truck load of iron each piece was made of? Think a little ways beyond the packers whom you so obviously hate.

Did the beef headed for Korea have to go thru' the packer, wholesaler, processor and retailer systems here before it shipped to Korea???? Silly me, I thought they probably sent pretty big chunks over there, mostly direct from the packers.

One plant I deal with that is attempting to run different labels shut down for a bit to try to adapt their facilities to handle different origins of product. Not simple. US born and raised. Canadian born and US raised. Don't think they handle Canadian market hogs anymore. Now, try and keep...

If I can't sell to several packers (with my 12#, Canadian born iso's), I can't buy them. So yes, MANY Canadian producers have lost American markets.

I'm a hog man, but it sure seems to me that it was RCALF that pushed for COOL, not the consumer. Consumers want to know about quality of their meat products, and would frown upon the rampant use of some of the newer antibiotics that the US hog industry uses, but I just haven't noticed many COOL...

That's really sad. All the producers I dealt with on the north side of our border were friendly, decent, honest folk. Started out buying thru' Spectrum which pooled independents to make good sized loads. Spectrum is done now as well, isn't it? When COOL first came out, several of us...

Actually, in this part of the US, COOL has devastated the independents. For many folks that actually owned their own pigs, buying iosweans was the best way to compete with the big outfits. The loss of markets to folks like us means that more folks are custom feeding for the big outfits, or...

Number one issue for any w-f operator is source of pigs. Good pigs are always a challenge to source. Canadian health status has always been better, primarily due to proximity to finishers and other hogs in general. US pigs that are available have often been extras from their flow, or often...

I haven't posted for a while now, but I thought I would pass on the effects of COOl on our operation... We've lost the ability to sell to our 2 closest packers, Swift and Morrell. I know, it really is for my own good, but silly me, I think it sucks that I have to pay freight for a few hundred...

I think the big outfits would be much happier with COOL than us independents. Smithfield could simply put a USA sticker on their in house products. Even if they would buy some Canadian sourced pigs for themselves, they can do it in such quantity that they could handle those in complete shifts...

Interesting, I've hauled a lot of beans to processors, but I've never had to say where they've come from?????

I think the retailer is telling the packer that they don't want to deal with multiple labels. If you were running a meat wholesale warehouse, would you want to keep track of every loin seperately? Let's see, this one was born in Canada, fed in MN. This one was born and fed in Manitoba and...

Bringing up other products again, what should COOL apply to? What about grain fed to livestock, or the seeds to produce the grain? What about fertilizers, etc? I think it's extremely tough to decide where to draw the line. Maybe way too simple, but, for some of these commodities that travel...

How would a hog man know what Target, Walmart and all the other retailers tell Morrell, Swift and Hormel???? All 3 have told producers, not just big ones, all of us, that they aren't going to accept Canadian sourced pigs. What about Burger King, McDs, etc., do you know what their demands are...