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North Dakota Won`t Lift Import Restrictions on Minnesota Cat

Big Muddy rancher

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12/17/2008
North Dakota`s Board of Animal Health North Dakota Won`t Lift Import Restrictions on Minnesota Cattlediscussed the state`s import restrictions on on Minnesota cattle today but made no move to lift them.

Producers and state officials are worried that importing Minnesota cattle could harm North Dakota`s 32-year tuberculosis-free status.

The board imposed the restrictions in February because of bovine TB in northwestern Minnesota.

Two months ago, the federal government granted Minnesota "split state status" for bovine TB. It lessened testing requirements for all cattle producers in the state except those in parts of four northwestern counties where the disease has been found in cattle and wild deer.

North Dakota animal health board member Dick Roth, a Fargo veterinarian, says he might support Minnesota`s split state status if the boundaries were expanded and more testing was done.

Minnesota state veterinarian Bill Hartmann says his state sees no need to expand the boundaries beyond where the disease has been found.


And yet OT doesn't think sovereign countries should be able to protect them selves from contagious disease. :roll:
 
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Anonymous

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Big Muddy rancher said:
And yet OT doesn't think sovereign countries should be able to protect them selves from contagious disease. :roll:

Au Contraire-- I have always supported countries/states being able to protect themselves from contagious disease... What I have opposed is some restrictions that countries have used as trade barriers like Canada's "ALL US CATTLE ARE DISEASED" restriction when all the studies and USDA said that cattle from many areas of the country were not affected...
 

Denny

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I volunteered to have my whole herd TB Tested will be doing it in january most likely on the coldest days of the month.I don't blame North Dakota this is some serious stuff.I do commend our buyers here in the state they have been paying market price for feeder cattle par with other parts of the country.What I think is a crock is the line of the area ends about 20 miles from North Dakota I guess the diseased deer won't cross state lines.

There was a whitetail buck shot west of here 40 miles that had ear tags in it's ears from the South Dakota DNR only 125 miles from the border.
 
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