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Canadas Cattle Disease Problems Keep Mounting

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Oldtimer, the extra cost of tags-almost as cheap as your tags
tag readers- About $800 bucks and you can rent it out to the brand inspectors.

computer systems- You got one cause your on Ranchers.net

and the time and labor involved with installing; No installing of ScoringAg needed

and recording such... You can do that all winter while sitting by the fire on your computer ,HA HA ,still gotta feed them their critters everyday.
 
PORKER said:
Oldtimer, the extra cost of tags-almost as cheap as your tags
tag readers- About $800 bucks and you can rent it out to the brand inspectors.

computer systems- You got one cause your on Ranchers.net

and the time and labor involved with installing; No installing of ScoringAg needed

and recording such... You can do that all winter while sitting by the fire on your computer ,HA HA ,still gotta feed them their critters everyday.
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I'm not talking about just me-- as there are a whole lot of ranchers out there still that don't even know what a computer is...

And all this renting, tagging, bolusing, and recording sounds simple--but it all adds to costs of production.....And so far it hasn't been shown to me- where its gains (if there even are any) are worth the extra costs.....Not when the USDA field folks actually doing the work on the ground- are telling us that we're doing a better job with the system we have than what is available with all this new high faluting technology....And there is no way from my knowledge that earttagging would ever hold up as proof of ownership in an ownership dispute...
 
Here in Michigian we have AMISH and they don't even have electricty ,so I print out the ScoringAg sheets of empty records ,they pencil it in and I upload it for 10 CENTS a sheet and then they are in compliance in Michigan.Darn good neighbors as they are always ready to help if there is a problem.
 
Oldtimer wrote:
Not when the USDA field folks actually doing the work on the ground- are telling us that we're doing a better job with the system we have than what is available with all this new high faluting technology
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Can you be more vague? How did that work for ya when testifying in front of a judge. :sure:

Who's us, RCALFR"S? :?:
 
HeyNow said:
Oldtimer wrote:
Not when the USDA field folks actually doing the work on the ground- are telling us that we're doing a better job with the system we have than what is available with all this new high faluting technology
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Can you be more vague? How did that work for ya when testifying in front of a judge. :sure:

Who's us, RCALFR"S? :?:
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According to the USDA official in charge of our Bangs outbreak near Yellowstone-- the reason they were able to track the animal sources so quickly and completely was because of the Montana brand system..Since many of these were trader cattle- without the brand laws all the NAIS (as now set up) would have shown them was who was the initial owner...
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Apparently your memory is very short-- or you don't comprehend the posts :roll: "us" in this case is the Montana Brands Enforcement Division and the brand inspectors that tracked all the cattle- both directions- that had contact with the inquestioned herd......
 
Maybe it's time you guys throw in the towel and let a generation that can handle advanced technology take over.From what I read all the time you old timers don't even know what you can or cannot feed your cattle.

If it was up to you I bet we wouldn't have microwaves or even indoor plumbing. :roll:
 
Manitoba_Rancher said:
OT- i think most ranchers now adays use a computer to market there cattle .
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Unless thats what you call the card room of the Montana Bar or the Elks Club (computer room :roll: :lol: ) that ain't how many deal around here...In all the many loads of cattle I shipped this fall-- none was directly sold over the computer-- and if I remember right only one was last year....Several were sold thru the local Superior rep....

You have to remember the average age of most ranchers/farmers/landowners in this county is somewhere around 60 years old-- and when we went to college the adding machine, calculator, and typewriter were considered all the business machines of the day--and the only calculator available took up the whole basement of one building and was behind locked doors ran by operators who wore hospital type gowns......
 
Guys, probably just as well leave people like OT back in their own little "Stone Age Cattle Business"...........waste of time to try to convince them to do what is right for the cattle industry, and for their own good, when they are determined to stay in the past.

Someday, they will get little enjoyment out of life, other than blaming you for not convincing them to modernize 'back when'.

mrj
 
mrj said:
Guys, probably just as well leave people like OT back in their own little "Stone Age Cattle Business"...........waste of time to try to convince them to do what is right for the cattle industry, and for their own good, when they are determined to stay in the past.

Someday, they will get little enjoyment out of life, other than blaming you for not convincing them to modernize 'back when'.

mrj
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You are one to be talking, mrj, you want the cattle business to go back to the early 1900s.
 
In all the many loads of cattle I shipped this fall-- none was directly sold over the computer-- and if I remember right only one was last year....Several were sold thru the local Superior rep.... Oldtimer Quote

We use Team internet auctions in Northern Michigan .
http://www.teamauctionsales.com/web/home.jsp
 
Tex, consumers nor conditions of raising cattle today are the same as back in 1900.

While our ranch did pretty well back then, when there were few regulations and fewer costs to raise the cattle, we prefer to combine the best cattle and range management knowledge of today (and tomorrow) with the best of the wisdom regarding cattle management and business conduct our ancestors passed down to us from back in their day on this ranch.

We've sold cattle from our ranch in western SD about every way there is since 1892, from grandpa consigning to a trusted order buyer, to taking a train load of four to eight year old steers to Chicago or Sioux City and selling them, to local sale barns, to internet sales. However, quite often over our ranch history, our sales have been to repeat customers who liked how we managed our cattle and what our cattle did for them, whether in the feedyard or on the rail.

mrj
 
mrj said:
Tex, consumers nor conditions of raising cattle today are the same as back in 1900.

While our ranch did pretty well back then, when there were few regulations and fewer costs to raise the cattle, we prefer to combine the best cattle and range management knowledge of today (and tomorrow) with the best of the wisdom regarding cattle management and business conduct our ancestors passed down to us from back in their day on this ranch.

We've sold cattle from our ranch in western SD about every way there is since 1892, from grandpa consigning to a trusted order buyer, to taking a train load of four to eight year old steers to Chicago or Sioux City and selling them, to local sale barns, to internet sales. However, quite often over our ranch history, our sales have been to repeat customers who liked how we managed our cattle and what our cattle did for them, whether in the feedyard or on the rail.

mrj
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..... so why do you want packers to limit your options?
 

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