Playing BSE bingo????????MISS TAM.

[Anonymous]

To be honest I never even knew the USDA had a testing program for 4D's until about a month or two ago when their ads started playing on the local radio--I guess they been advertising in other areas for some time...

I don't know of anyone that has had any tested-- but that said, many of the dead ones found around here are just hide and bones when found...Most of the others are sold before they get that poorly- especially with the cull cow prices running in the $50-60 cwt range and probably get tested at the kill plants....

I just remembered the beer the Canadians used to come down to get--Milwaukees Best-- used to have promotion sales where you could buy it for $5-6 a 24 pack...My Canadian acquaintance was commenting that back then it was not uncommon to have 2-3 Canadian pickups or suburbans lined up behind the border town bars loading up.....

Anyway I believe his description of the testing program over what some groups that are lobbying to get the border open say-- and we know even Canadians will bend a few rules to make a buck--like keeping contraband US heifers that were meant for slaughter- Right Tam :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Chewing tobacco was twenty five cents a pack back in the good old days.

As far a s contraban US heifers guess their are crooks in every crowd. I know the ones in my herd were here a couple years before I checked the health of animal tags and found them to be from Montana. I suppose your worried i will get them tested and they turn up positive. Well when their turn come I will. I probably know the area your Canadian friend came from and let me say Hillbillies show up every where. Cows are being tested and if none come from his area no problem as they probably had no supplemental feed anyways.

 

[Anonymous]

Chewing tobacco was twenty five cents a pack back in the good old days.

As far a s contraban US heifers guess their are crooks in every crowd. I know the ones in my herd were here a couple years before I checked the health of animal tags and found them to be from Montana. I suppose your worried i will get them tested and they turn up positive. Well when their turn come I will. I probably know the area your Canadian friend came from and let me say Hillbillies show up every where. Cows are being tested and if none come from his area no problem as they probably had no supplemental feed anyways.

Big Muddy- The only reason I mention talking to this fella is that sometimes the Canadian posts and articles requesting sainthood for everyone north of the 49th get a little old-- All paint the same picture of The Evil American Rancher down here--And all Canadians are painted as the upright Saviours of the North ......Human nature told me that there were many in Canada not testing and he just confirmed it- something I had also been hearing from many others, but didn't post because it was hearsay.....

Well I ain't concerned about the ol US cows- I could care less- I know it happened on both sides of the border and just confirms to me why USDA needs to have very strong import rules for live cattle.... But Ol Tam better hope the customs guys don't read ranchers.net ---She could get on the "lookout list" and go thru 5 hour border crossing interviews and full body strip searchs every time she crosses :lol: .....

 

[HAY MAKER]

Chewing tobacco was twenty five cents a pack back in the good old days.

As far a s contraban US heifers guess their are crooks in every crowd. I know the ones in my herd were here a couple years before I checked the health of animal tags and found them to be from Montana. I suppose your worried i will get them tested and they turn up positive. Well when their turn come I will. I probably know the area your Canadian friend came from and let me say Hillbillies show up every where. Cows are being tested and if none come from his area no problem as they probably had no supplemental feed anyways.

BIG MUDDY ,you aint callin MISS TAM a crook are you?LOL...........good luck PS I hope the border agents dont try to frisk MISS TAM,as I believe she is mean enough to fight.

 

[Kato]

There is one thing that sticks in my mind about this, and I wish I could remember who said it, :? but on May 21, 2003 a prominent American was quoted as saying, when he heard about the positive cow here, "What's the problem up there? Don't you have backhoes?".

As for that news story, seems like that guy was just playing the system. You can buy an old worn out cow in Manitoba for around a hundred dollars, (I know, because we sold one last week :roll: ) so if he could double his money by buying them and turning in the samples, what is he? A smart businessman? Or a lowlife looking for a quick buck? I guess it depends on your point of view. Personally, he does not get any respect from me for the way he did this. Seems a little too callous for me. :|

 

[HAY MAKER]

Chewing tobacco was twenty five cents a pack back in the good old days.

As far a s contraban US heifers guess their are crooks in every crowd. I know the ones in my herd were here a couple years before I checked the health of animal tags and found them to be from Montana. I suppose your worried i will get them tested and they turn up positive. Well when their turn come I will. I probably know the area your Canadian friend came from and let me say Hillbillies show up every where. Cows are being tested and if none come from his area no problem as they probably had no supplemental feed anyways.

BIG MUDDY ,you aint callin MISS TAM a crook are you?LOL...........good luck PS I hope the border agents dont try to frisk MISS TAM,as I believe she is mean enough to fight.

MISS TAM,I have a solution to those border agents trying to frisk you,probably save you lots of time and embarassment,but you are gonna have to do a lil trading...............good luck PS remember Big Muddy was the one that called you crooked not me.

 

[Tam]

Chewing tobacco was twenty five cents a pack back in the good old days.

As far a s contraban US heifers guess their are crooks in every crowd. I know the ones in my herd were here a couple years before I checked the health of animal tags and found them to be from Montana. I suppose your worried i will get them tested and they turn up positive. Well when their turn come I will. I probably know the area your Canadian friend came from and let me say Hillbillies show up every where. Cows are being tested and if none come from his area no problem as they probably had no supplemental feed anyways.

BIG MUDDY ,you aint callin MISS TAM a crook are you?LOL...........good luck PS I hope the border agents dont try to frisk MISS TAM,as I believe she is mean enough to fight.

MISS TAM,I have a solution to those border agents trying to frisk you,probably save you lots of time and embarassment,but you are gonna have to do a lil trading...............good luck PS remember Big Muddy was the one that called you crooked not me.

Big Muddy said guess there are crooks in every crowd you are the one naming names Haymaker. Do you check the ears of every animal you buy, before you buy, at a livestock auction barn. How do you know that these animals weren't bought in good faith by the buyer and the seller was the crook that took them out of the feeder program. I didn't say I sold feeder heifers did I? Wasn't there a US rancher that bought some Canadian heifers that had had their ear tags REMOVED by a US vet and Sale barn manager a while back. Who is the crook the US rancher or the US vet and sale barn manager that removed the tags?

As far as the border crossing guards I'll take my changes with them long before I will trade any CCIA tags to you for what ever you may come up with including the trading stock from rancher. And no comments from you Cowsense :wink: :lol: