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22 • HEREFORD AMERICA January 2005 Border... (continued from page 1) • surveillance programs to detect BSE that meet or exceed international guidelines. F Bonanza 027 by LPG Bonanza 52G A tremendous herd bull purchased from Feddes at the Black Hills Stock Show. If pigment and growth are what you’re searching for take a look at this bull’s sons. BW + 4.5 WW +52 YW +92 Scr. +1.6 Milk +15 M&G +41 -------------- The sale bulls are out of these sires: F Bonanza 027 F Explorer 953 KB L1 Domino 661 -------------- We feel this is the best set of bulls we have ever raised. They are the ranchers’ kind with balanced EPD’s. Our bulls are not highly fitted and are pasture raised. These bulls have a lot of pigment and HH Robin Hood L130 good EPDs. by SR Robin Hood 249 First calves out of this herd sire purchased at Hoffman’s. Check out his carcass figures: Fat.00; REA .24; IMF .04 BW +3.6 WW +56 YW +96 Scr. +1.5 Milk +25 M&G +53 Please call or write for catalog: • a ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban must in place and effectively enforced. • appropriate epidemiological investigations, risk assessment and risk mitigation measures must be imposed as necessary. USDA expects about 2 million live cattle Over 50 Years in the Business The heifers will start calving April 1st. Tony Stroh 701-764-5217 or Mike Stroh 701-573-4373 10550 Hwy 200, Killdeer, ND 58640 to enter the United States in the first 12 months following adoption of the rule, a slight surge over the peak 1.7 million imported in 2000. However, a USDA spokesman said that due to a slight decline in the national herd brought to slaughter — to about 32.5 million from a level of Auctioneer Scott Weishaar F Explorer 953 by CH 82B Explorer 122E Another bull we purchased from Feddes in Montana. He continues to prove himself in our herd. Top seller at Midland. WW +54 YW +87 Scr +1.5 Milk +17 M&G +44 KB L1 Domino 661 by HH Advance 492D A 492D son we purchased from Ken Baker & Sons. A super calving-ease sire with lots of beef. BW +1.7 WW +27 YW +28 Scr. -0.4 Milk +10 M&G +23 about 35 to 36 million over the past five years — the American beef industry can easily absorb that number. With increased slaughter capabilities in Canada, as well as an eventual leveling of prices in Canada and the United States, USDA expects imports of Canadian cattle to decline thereafter. Not enough and too much: industry reacts to Canadian border rule change by Pete Hisey on 12/30/04 for Meatingplace.com USDA’s decision to adopt a final rule reopening the Canadian border to live Canadian cattle seems to have made no one happy. Proponents of keeping the border closed, like R-CALF USA, charge that USDA has been sloppy, unscientific and premature in adopting the rule. Proponents of opening the border say there are still too many limitations, such as the 30-month age maximum, placed on trade. J. Patrick Boyle, president of the American Meat Institute, said in reaction, “Science and international beef and cattle trading guidelines set by the Office of International Epizootics (OIE) both say that the United States should permit imports of Canadian cattle regardless of age.” Bill Bullard, chief executive of R-CALF, also cited OIE, noting that while we have now classified Canada as a minimal-risk region, the OIE, essentially the international standards-setting body for disease regulation, has not classified Canada as such. He also said that the 30- month limit is far too high, and that for safety’s sake, the acceptable age should be much lower, closer to the Japanese standard of 20 months. Rosemary Mucklow, executive director of the National Meat Association, called the decision tantamount to “outsourcing our cattle slaughter industry. They will allow the meat from a 30-month old animal into the country, but not the actual animal.” She says that once NMA digests the entire rule, it may appeal to USDA to issue an emergency regulation allowing for import of cattle of all ages. Both sides will have 60 days after the rule is published on Jan. 4 to lobby Congress to overturn or modify it, and given the degree of unhappiness evident in the industry on Wednesday afternoon, there may be some bitter battles in Congress, as members with varying constituencies and interests battle it out. The rule will go into effect on March 7 unless Congress takes explicit action to stop it. One implication of the rule is that other countries could quickly apply for minimalrisk status, and would have to live up to the same set of rules the USDA applied to Canada. While this rule is specific to Canada, other nations meeting the criteria could apply for their own rule. The rule is also set up to prohibit breeding cattle from being imported. All cattle imported must go directly by sealed conveyance directly to one, and only one, feedlot, and from there to a USDA-
January 2005 HEREFORD AMERICA • 23 million Canadian cattle expected to cross that the previous record was 1.7 million. American beef over their borders, and the border in the first 12 months after the That was in 2000, when the U.S. export Bullard asked, “Where is all this beef going rule takes effect will be easy for the market was virtually unlimited. Today, to go?” American market to absorb, Bullard noted dozens of countries refuse to allow certified slaughterhouse. That specification, along with clear, permanent branding of the cattle to make it clear that they are of Canadian origination, is meant to keep the two national herds from merging. R-CALF’s Bullard, however, noted that USDA is allowing a loophole. Although he had not had time to read the entire rule, he said that the indication is that rules about the removal and disposal of specified risk materials (SRMs) such as brains and the spinal column would be similar to those applicable to American cattle. That means that unless such a loophole is closed, some SRMs, in addition to blood, which is not an SRM, could be rendered into feed for poultry and the resultant poultry litter, possibly infected with prions from infected Canadian cattle. Litter could then be introduced to feed given to U.S. cattle. That in effect circumvents the ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban, Bullard said. Bullard also charged that “it is irresponsible of the agency to relax food safety guidelines” just as the United States is entering the final stages of negotiations with countries such as South Korea and Japan to open their markets to American beef again. As for USDA’s contention that the 2 AMI launches suit against USDA by Pete Hisey on 12/30/04 for Meatingplace.com The American Meat Institute has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia demanding an end to the ban on the importation from Canada of cattle 30 months of age or older. In the complaint, the association charges that the ban on older cattle is “scientifically insupportable and is therefore arbitrary and capricious.” by Pete Hisey on 1/3/05 for Meatingplace.com The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Sunday, Jan. 2, that the suspected case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy found in an Alberta dairy cow has tested positive for the disease. The animal was about 8 years old and was born before the ban on bovine products in cattle feed was instituted. The discovery is not expected to endanger the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reopen the border to cattle under 30 months of age. In a statement released Monday morning, Ron DeHaven of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said, “USDA AMI is making a fine distinction. It is not opposing the new rule on importation of cattle announced Wednesday; rather, it is challenging enforcement of the original May 2003 ban, which underlies the qualification in the newly published rule that only cattle under 30 months of age may be imported alive. Products from older cattle may be imported, however. That is leading to financial stress on American processors, according to Mark Canadian BSE case a positive remains confident that the animal and public health measures that Canada has in place, including the removal of specified risk material (SRMs) from the human food chain, a ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban, a national surveillance program and import restrictions, combined with existing U.S. domestic safeguards and additional safeguards announced as part of USDA’s BSE minimal-risk rule … provide the utmost protections to U.S. consumers and livestock.” He added that under the minimal-risk rule, Canada could have as many as 11 confirmed cases of BSE and still be considered a minimal-risk country. Dopp, AMI senior vice president for regulatory affairs and general counsel. While he can’t quantify the damage with a hard number, Dopp charged that slaughter plants are “going dark” all over the country and that the government’s ban on older live cattle is forcing Canada to develop a slaughter industry that will compete with that of the United States. “The May 2003 border closing has caused Canada to expand its slaughtering capacity by building new plants and adding shifts to existing plants,” AMI said in a statement released to coincide with its press conference Thursday afternoon. “Meanwhile, many U.S. packers have been hit hard economically by short cattle supplies and high prices for lean beef and cows. And ultimately, the consumer has paid the price in the form of higher prices for beef and products made from beef.” AMI is asking the court to allow the importation of live cattle born after Canada instituted a ban on including ruminant parts in feed fed to its cattle in 1997. Dopp said that the potential BSE case announced by the Canadian government Thursday would have no effect on either the rule or AMI’s lawsuit. 5 SONS SELL! GV HHH Victoria U81 G41 Mother of our new Victor Domino herd bull, Grandview Victor 2542. Notice the udder attachment and teat placement on this cow. 4 GRANDSONS SELL! MC Ranger 9615 One of the top carcass and tenderness sires of the breed. Sires females with good volume and sound udders. C7 Westwind Warrior 17L 7 generations of “Old Line” Westwind breeding. Dates back to when we started in 1965. 3 SONS SELL! PGF Beau Victor 579 F2 One of the “Bell Wether” sires of the breed. Sires good pigment, feet and female productivity. 540 Westwind Rd. • Valier, Montana 59486 Website: www.westwindranch.com John & Linda Holden 406-279-3326 or 279-3354
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