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I heard this from R-CALF yesterday- now today I heard it on the Northern Ag Network News:

Yesterday 9-19-06 the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) passed a resolution to remove cattle from the Department of Treasury’s J-List. .

The immediate effect of this support from NASDA will be to greatly improve the chances of passing a bill in Congress that permanently removes cattle from the J-List. Once this is accomplished, all cattle imported into the United States will be permanently marked with a mark of origin. This will improve our ability to protect the U.S. cattle herd from foreign animal diseases, particularly those with long incubation periods, because it will allow the immediate identification of all foreign cattle in the event of a disease outbreak in the country from which they were imported.



Also, once all imported cattle are marked with a mark of origin, the separate identity of the U.S. cattle herd can be maintained and country of origin labeling can be more easily implemented at no cost to U.S. producers.
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