PureCountry
Well-known member
Sorry I didn't look any of you up on my trip this week. I planned to, until I got to the border. Had all my paperwork in order for the USDA vet and state ag folks, then I met the Customs and Border Protection Agency. My, my, they are a sweet bunch.
In 2 months of bloodwork, paperwork and prepwork, not one person on either side of the border mentioned going through a "broker" to sell bulls to American citizens. The fine folks at Customs and Border Protection informed me when I reached the border at noon on Wednesday, and by 6 o'clock that night not one of them could still explain to me why it's the law, other than to say, "It's the law." So $500 later I had an account set up with UPS as my broker, and the vet was good enough to stay late and check the bulls for me so I could carry on to Harrison. Thanks again to Dr. Jim Becker, USDA vet at Sweetgrass. Great guy.
Also many thanks to Rick and Lori Edmundson for putting me up after my ordeal, and gracing them with my presence at midnight. Great folks, great scenery, and man was it nice to drive through so much green country. I have never seen Montana so pretty. I had to stop and see my great-great-Grandad in the cemetery at Avon, what a neat place that was.
Anyway, from then on my trip was rushed, so maybe we'll get to meet some of you Montanans down the road on another trip.
In 2 months of bloodwork, paperwork and prepwork, not one person on either side of the border mentioned going through a "broker" to sell bulls to American citizens. The fine folks at Customs and Border Protection informed me when I reached the border at noon on Wednesday, and by 6 o'clock that night not one of them could still explain to me why it's the law, other than to say, "It's the law." So $500 later I had an account set up with UPS as my broker, and the vet was good enough to stay late and check the bulls for me so I could carry on to Harrison. Thanks again to Dr. Jim Becker, USDA vet at Sweetgrass. Great guy.
Also many thanks to Rick and Lori Edmundson for putting me up after my ordeal, and gracing them with my presence at midnight. Great folks, great scenery, and man was it nice to drive through so much green country. I have never seen Montana so pretty. I had to stop and see my great-great-Grandad in the cemetery at Avon, what a neat place that was.
Anyway, from then on my trip was rushed, so maybe we'll get to meet some of you Montanans down the road on another trip.