The events of last Friday further shows the need for a National Individual ID Program well before 2009! FSA is the ONLY agency that can get this system up an runniing in a short period of time. I would not be surprised after the comments period ends on July 6th, we will see USDA/APHIS realize they had better take a serious look at FSA!
Comment submitted by National Association of County Office Employees
Description:
Type: Public Comment
Phase: Notice
Company/Group/Association Name:
National Association of County Office Employees
Author Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06-17-2005
Effective Date:
Comment: The county office employees of the Farm Service Agency are in a unique position to administer NAID registration in the county offices. FSA already maintains a strong database of crop and livestock producers with 911 addresses in the SCIMS database. FSA has demonstrated its current abilities by utliizing GPS and GIS computer technolgies to quickly place a quaratine around an operation in the event of a disease outbreak. APHIS indicates in their brochure that FSA farm numbers are not unique for each producer by county. This is incorrect, in that Farm Serial Number (FSN) 100 in Wagoner County, OK has a unique identifier in the computer database as compared to FSN 100 in Imperial County, NE. The state and county code for Wagoner County, OK is 40-145 and this is a part of the GPS database if farm records for that specific county. In other words, FSA could currently administer phases of implementation of NAID beyond just assisting the State Department of Agriculture in getting producers to request premise ID numbers.
Comment submitted by National Association of County Office Employees
Description:
Type: Public Comment
Phase: Notice
Company/Group/Association Name:
National Association of County Office Employees
Author Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06-17-2005
Effective Date:
Comment: The county office employees of the Farm Service Agency are in a unique position to administer NAID registration in the county offices. FSA already maintains a strong database of crop and livestock producers with 911 addresses in the SCIMS database. FSA has demonstrated its current abilities by utliizing GPS and GIS computer technolgies to quickly place a quaratine around an operation in the event of a disease outbreak. APHIS indicates in their brochure that FSA farm numbers are not unique for each producer by county. This is incorrect, in that Farm Serial Number (FSN) 100 in Wagoner County, OK has a unique identifier in the computer database as compared to FSN 100 in Imperial County, NE. The state and county code for Wagoner County, OK is 40-145 and this is a part of the GPS database if farm records for that specific county. In other words, FSA could currently administer phases of implementation of NAID beyond just assisting the State Department of Agriculture in getting producers to request premise ID numbers.