Sandhusker said:
The explaination makes no sense. I don't know how many calves he had there, lets say 100 just for illustration, but if his calves plus the 7 Canadians went thru together, his check still should of been correct as he would of been paid for his 100, but not the 7 Canadian. Why was he paid for 93 but not 100? What happened to his other 7? Who got paid for those? They didn't think to check to see if somebody who had Canadian calves had the right number? The packer can't keep track of who had how many cattle?
Also, didn't the producer claim that he had seen those tags, but didn't pay much attention because he thought they were "Angus" tags? How would he of seen them if those calves just got shipped in the day before? He didn't recognize his own cattle?
Who is saying his cattle didn't have Certified Angus tags that he saw maybe the reason he didn't see the MAPLE LEAF around the CA was because it wasn't there and they were Certified Angus tags in their ears. :? That has been just about every Canadian producers question "how could he see the CA and not see the MAPLE LEAF around it?"
As far as who got paid maybe that is why the cheque is so long in coming
Just for illustration you have 50 lots of cattle all of 100, most are US cattle, but a few are imported from Canada Somehow after the USDA vet inspects the Canadian cattle and finds everything is up to the rules with the imported cattle, a plant employee fresh off the truck from whereever :wink: mixes seven cattle from one of the Canadian loads with seven from one of the US loads. Not wanting to be fired or just not realizing what he has done he tells nobody. Since the USDA signed off on the Canadian cattle the plant runs the lots through and pays the importers without realizing their mistake. But when they are inspecting the US cattle for health and age they find 7 cattle sporting CCIA tags. So they hold the cheque on the 7 cattle from the US producer that the 7 were mix in with, until they can get to the bottom of what happen.
Since there was more than one load of Canadian cattle at the plant that day the CCIA tag is the only way to know for sure what truck they came off of. The plant decides to go it alone and calls the CCIA to see where they came from but the animals are not sick so no go. They are forced at this time to notify the USDA and report what happened, the USDA calls CCIA to save time but again since the cattle are not sick it is a no go. The USDA realizes the only way to find the importer is go through the number themselves and back track IE no official request to the CFIA. After looking through all the data they find the cattle were indeed imported legally the day before. end of the USDA inspection as the cattle are in the US where there are suppose to be, no laws broken. Packer then takes the information from the USDA and finds the importer to see if his cheque was for the right amount and then issues the cheque for the right amount to the feedlot operator. end of story.
Sounds LOGICAL TO ME. Just because it doesn't bash Canada or the USDA doesn't mean it couldn't have happened that way.
AND Please remember I have no proof this is just my opinion of how this could have happened. So don't bother asking for it.