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Part IV: The Modern Agricultural god of the Export Market?

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Part IV:  The Modern Agricultural god of the Export Market?

By

Celeste Bishop

At this point you may be thinking to yourself that I have digressed a bit from current events relating to food when I begin talking about a modern agricultural god and holiday known as Saturnalia. Take a few moments of your time to journey with me through ancient mythology to understand a facet of the modern international agricultural trade market.

Embedded within a summary obtained under Public Disclosure of a Washington State trade ‘mission’ in May 2006 regarding the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) to the Pacific Region a paid government contractor, Jack Fields, in the guise of a ‘ white-hat’ cattleman lobbyist, wrote the following: “Much to my surprise every Australian I spoke with on my trip was keenly aware of the importance of export markets to Saturnalia and responded virtually the same. If the customers want it we will give it to them because the USA will not. I was thanked by a few cattlemen for the USA dragging its feet with the NAIS because Australia has been able to corner the Japanese market and, have been actively marketing their products there. The MLA also told us that recently they were visited by group from China and another group from Korea.” Continue reading →

Part II: Traceability- The Dawn of a New Age in Food Control

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Part II-Traceability:  Marking the Beasts

By

Celeste Bishop

January 2013 Update.  Last month the final rule for Traceability (the old NAIS) was finalized.  In rule-making it does not matter what the people want the agencies make the rules, people testify, and the agencies do what they want.  With the large public outcry from coast to coast it took the USDA a long time to meet their goals but they are now here for all of us to endure.  Stand your ground.  This month every deceptive trick in the book is coming your way to ensnare you.  Look carefully at fine print, don not answer census’s or surveys, and do not hit any simple one button gimmicks that take you into slavery.

The concept of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) was created in the bowels of international think-tanks for marking global assets.  It was commenced in the United States after the tragic events of 911, although plans for an animal disease outbreak were already being put on the books within emergency management.  Most farmers and ranchers became aware of the NAIS in late 2005, early 2006.  Historically agrarians have sounded the alarm when predators were encroaching and so too they heralded the news that a perilously dangerous time was imminent.

Since ancient times farmers have kept watch over their flocks and knew each animal intimately.The shepherd would know if something was wrong with the animal and would intervene as appropriate.Today there is a universal bureaucracy that has seized identification of animals for its own purposes.They want all premises registered, eliminating your absolute right to private property.Put simply they do not want you to own private property.Once you go through the registration process your land title is clouded and your have just transferred your ownership to a silent partner who calls the shots on what you can and cannot do.In the name of poverty alleviation governments around the world are ˜securing assets, aka animal capital. This is another reason for the increased pressure of multiple census.

Nowadays government wants to use identification of property and animals for certification of exports and to falsely bolster consumer confidence that has taken a hit from increasing food contamination.These same rulers want to increase the pressure, coerce farmers to adopt their brand of livestock production practices that are diametrically opposed to established safe and prosperous agriculture.

In order to achieve their goal, tyrannical powers are seeking to flood the agricultural market with ever-increasing herd and flock health programs and heavy handed controls on breeding and subjective genetic ˜improvement” programs. As traditional agriculture is being purged, the global control of animal movement is taking center stage as can be seen with the USDA’s recent announcement of a Traceability Framework.Simultaneously, zoning and compartmentalization is breaking the backs of sovereign countries and states in the name of controlling disease.Food security is being strongly linked with public health.Public health is being commingled with zoonoses (diseases that effect humans and animals) and food safety. A tightening noose is being put around market access.In the foreseeable future only those who are compliant will be allowed market access.The term animal welfare is being manipulated, exploited, and redefined into international definition and the public is unaware of the subtle and progressive change.

2009 Going Where No Man Has Gone Before

In 2009 the OIE held its first Animal Identification and Traceability Conference (ID &T).The objectives of this international conference simply stressed to participating countries and businesses the ˜benefits of identification and traceability and demands for a global commitment to identification & traceability.This conference served as a vehicle to raise awareness, thus familiarity, of the OIE and Codex standards. Through transparency, a free-flow of information and data from the various countries would be extracted for perfection of the final ONE food system.Technological standards are yet to be determined for future application within the total food control grid.When completed, Animal Identification & Traceability will be a seamless system that prevents gaps and duplication between standards, it will be ONE system for all.

When the USDA presented their new Traceability Framework they stressed, Encourage the use of lower-cost technology. One must carefully listen to what the USDA was saying with this statement and not project many farmer’s hope and desire that the agency was ‘˜listening’ to the people.The USDA is merely mirroring the OIE ID & T Framework of making an even technological playing field so that no countries, including poor ones, would be left behind.Applied research is now being commanded to develop cheaper and more practical tools.The socio-economic circumstances of all participants are scrutinized so ID & T calls for flexibility during implementation to be required.Hence, the USDA, in good conscience states administered by the States and Tribal Nations to provide more flexibility.

It has been determined that your veterinarian is a valuable key to bridging the gap between public and private sectors.He or she is a conduit that assists in collecting, analyzing and disseminating information.It is through the Veterinary Services (VS) that an improved legal ID& T will emerge.

What Does ID & T Guarantee?

ID & T has discovered that fear is a motivating factor in persuading people and countries to change their basic philosophies and law.The media has whipped up a Fear of the Week frenzy.The OIE, never wanting a good crisis to go wasted, is promising the peoples of the world:

What is the OIE’s Scope?

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Down the Yellow Brick NASS Road

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Step by step, let’s expose where your personal information goes once it is collected by NASS, in either survey or census format’s.

First, your information is collected via survey and census tool mechanisms.  Despite it’s “Lock Down” promotion, your personal farm information is disseminated between ‘partners’.  Who are these partners?

Click Here:  SIAP

The Agrifood and Fishery Information Service is the decentralized entity of SAGARPA

(The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, is a unit of the Federal Executive, which has among its objectives to foster the pursuit of a policy of support that can help produce better, better utilize the comparative advantages of our agricultural sector, integrating the activities of the rural environment productive chains from the rest of the economy, and encourage collaboration of producer organizations with programs and projects themselves, as well as the goals and objectives for the agricultural sector, the National Plan of Development)  Hey, my info goes to Mexico?????  Why is it going to Mexico?????

Click Here:  SAGARPA

responsible for designing and coordinating the operation of the National Agriculture, Food, and Fishery Sectors Information System, and also to promote the concurrence and coordination to implement the National Sustainable Rural Development Information System (SNIDRUS).

So let’s boil this down.  First NASS collects your farm data.  It then goes to Agrifood and Fishery Info Service who then gleans a sharper edge on commerce by knowing all your proprietary farm data, including breeding records and production records.

Your personal information is then swapped over to the National Sustainable Rural Development Information System, SNIDRUS.  This System is a Sustainable (Eugenic) Rual Development where your farm will be exterminated, unless you become a compliant slave to living document’s of regulations.  Where the name of the game is : What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.

Back to SIAP….

To achieve the aforementioned, SIAP requires a coordination scheme and standards framework that guides in a clear and homogeneous way the actions of the offices and entities of the Federal Public Administration and that of the state level government under a vision, mission, objectives and projects aimed at a common goal, that of generating objective, timely, quality and reliable information, for the purposes of making it available to the general public and for the decision-making support.

Mission

To provide the agricultural farmers, fishing producers and economic agents that take part in the agrifood chains, with reliable and timely information for the decision-making that contributes to the sustainable rural development.

Vision

To become the coordinating institution for the National Sustainable Rural Development Information System (SNIDRUS). Source of the statistics and geographic information for the agrifood and fishery sectors, with top quality staff and services, reknown for the objectivity, truthfulness, and timeliness of its information which is gathered with the participation of the institutions and other agents involved in the matter.

Every successful data extraction includes transfer of your farm data to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Click here:  FAO.

And that is the bottom line.  Turning over your information to the United Nations to be used against you as they set enslavement policy.

10 Minute Citizen:  Take any measure to say no to this hostile farm takeover.

From the trenches…….

FMD: The Way to Global Control

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In June 2009 a FMD Conference entitled: The Way to Global Control was held in Paraguay.  The significance of FMD was highlighted in the United Kingdom when many farms and ranches were devastated not by FMD but by the resulting regulations.  Animals tenderly loved and cared for were ripped from their owners care to be culled, killed stamped out in the most groteque manner and then dumped into a pit similar to the Holocaust to be incinerated or buried.

This FMD ‘scare’ began to shape animal health policy around the world.  While the conference took place the AMVA has waited until September 15, 2009 to inform their members and the population-at-large on the final recommendations of the FMD Conference.

From the trenches…..

September 15, 2009

OIE, FAO seek to control FMD

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization have launched an initiative to bring foot-and-mouth disease under global control.

The organizations presented the initiative in late June at an OIE/FAO conference on FMD in Paraguay. The goal is to create a long-term program for the control of FMD under the auspices of the existing Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases, which the OIE and FAO signed in 2004.

The OIE recognizes almost 70 countries as FMD free, but more than 100 countries have endemic or sporadic infections. Currently, seven pools of distinct FMD virus strains exist around the world-in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America.

Participants in the recent conference agreed that the OIE and FAO should promote new and existing regional road maps for the control of FMD. Long-term FMD-control programs in South America, the European Union, and Southeast Asia could provide templates for programs in other regions.

Other recommendations were for the OIE and FAO to communicate the need for FMD control, strengthen national veterinary services, improve global cooperation for FMD surveillance, and enhance access to diagnostic facilities. Conference participants also recommended that the OIE should consider establishing banks of FMD vaccines in strategic locations and should encourage recognition of FMD-free countries for purposes of trade in animals and animal products.

The full list of 20 recommendations is at www.oie.int under “press releases.”

From the FAO/OIE website:

FAO/OIE June 26, 2009-Paraguay

OIE/FAO Global Conference on Foot and Mouth Disease

“The way towards global control”

FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Over 500 participants, including OIE national Delegates , stakeholders , representatives of FAO and other partner international organisations, key global donors, non-governmental and farmers’ organisations participated in the OIE/FAO Global Conference on Foot and Mouth Disease which took place in Asunción, Paraguay on 24-26 June 2009.

The Conference was organised with the generous contribution of the Servicio Nacional de Calidad y Salud Animal (SENACSA) of Paraguay, the Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento of Brazil, the European Commission, Spain and many other sponsors.

Below the final recommendations unanimously adopted by the participants:

Considering that:

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) has for centuries been known as a serious threat to the health and welfare of the domestic and wild animal ruminant and swine population of the world, with negative impacts on the livelihoods of animal keepers;(This particular phraseology suspends Constitutional protections)

The current lack of awareness and knowledge of the impacts of FMD at the individual producer level, and especially for the poorest farmers and the false perception that FMD is not a priority disease for poverty reduction;

The production, performance and use of large ruminants for ploughing and traction are seriously diminished when infected with FMD. Production and efficiency is further diminished in terms of quality and quantity of dairy products and weight gain ratios;

Countries infected with FMD are more prone to food insecurity as a result of the impact of FMD at household level and through reduced access to local, national and international markets and of animal draught power for agriculture;

Seventy countries in the world are already officially recognized by the OIE as free from FMD with or without vaccination while more than 100 countries are still either considered as endemically or sporadically infected with the disease;

The need of a strong commitment of all countries at a high political level to harmonise global, regional and national policies for FMD control;

The FMD virus serotypes and strains are distributed into several major virus ecological setting or reservoirs, each containing distinct regional viral strains from which new variants may emerge, which creates a demand for advanced laboratory services and technical advice to select appropriate vaccines;

The persistence of the FMDV in certain wild animals will remain a threat to the domestic ruminant population necessitating the need to monitor the disease in wild and feral animal populations and to control the disease by separating species and subpopulations of animals with different disease status;

Unprecedented globalization of trade and movement of people and animals opens the door for any virus strain to infect any part of the world;

Regional long term efforts will be needed to address the threats of FMD viruses and animal reservoirs or environmental persistence;

OIE official recognition of country and zonal freedom from FMD is an important element in the drive towards the global control of FMD and the facilitation of trade in animals and animal products;

Many developing and in transition countries are in need of assistance as they lack the necessary resources and effective veterinary services to initiate, implement or sustain a national disease control program for FMD;

Initiating an FMD control program with limited financial resources requires targeted technical support and guidance to optimize the strategy and actions to achieve rapid gains on the investment, that could stimulate further cost effective public and private expenditures;

The control and eventual eradication of FMD in a country, region or worldwide could only be achieved if the international community recognizes that the control of FMD is a global public good that will benefit all populations and future generations;

Realising an ideal of global control of FMD will be a costly and long-term process relying heavily on the sustainable availability of sufficient public and private financial resources from Governments, producers and market chain actors, and the international donor community;

Good veterinary governance is an essential pre-requisite to ensure the efficient implementation of national programs and to encourage the establishment of sustainable public-private partnerships and international support for the control of FMD on a national, regional and global level;

There is an urgent need for research in vaccines that will improve the access of countries to good quality vaccines that are fit for purpose against the prevailing field strains of the FMD virus in each virus reservoir, in each relevant species, and which can be cost effective and used in challenging environmental conditions;

There is a need for more research on the risk of products from different susceptible species imported from non-free countries;

Good examples of successful regionally co-ordinated approaches that have delivered freedom from FMD in part or whole of the areas involved are seen in the European region, in South-East Asia and South America. These long term regional programs can provide important templates for formulating co-ordinated regional and national FMD control strategies in the other affected regions of the world;

There is a need for all countries currently affected by FMD to be able to enter into a regional co-ordinated program against FMD, but national resources are limited, a progressive control pathway towards FMD freedom with or without vaccination should begin with actions feasible in all affected countries and build progressively towards official recognition of FMD freedom of zones and countries;

Countries already free of the disease and able to support global control of FMD can contribute to a win-win situation resulting in a reduced poverty in infected countries and a reduced the risk to their own territory from virus reintroductions;

International standards of the OIE for good veterinary governance, the control methods for FMD, the production and use of vaccines, the trade in and movement of animals and animal products and the diagnosis of the disease are integral in formulating a strategy for the global control of FMD;

FAO and OIE signed several cooperation agreements including GF-TADs and Regional Animal Health Centers in different regions.

THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE CONFERENCE REITERATE THEIR STRONG SUPPORT FOR A GLOBALLY COORDINATED APPROACH TO CONTROL FMD AND RECOMMEND THAT:

1. The OIE and FAO together with governments, producers and other international, regional and national role players and stakeholders must confirm and communicate the economic and social justification for recognizing officially the global control and eventual eradication of FMD as a global public good for the benefit of all populations and future generations.

2. A strategy for the global control of FMD should be regarded as an international priority and should be developed as a matter of urgency jointly by the OIE and FAO preferably under the GF-TADs platform, in consultation with the relevant international, regional and national stakeholders and donor community.

3. The OIE, FAO and other international and regional organizations concerned with FMD control realize a very high level of political communication to convince the high level policy makers in infected countries to consider FMD control as a priority using the threat of FMD transmission to neighbouring countries and regions as the thrust of their arguments.

4. The FAO supported by the OIE and relevant international organisations conduct analytical work on the significant impacts of FMD on wealth creation, food security and gender issues, that would create a clear incentive for the governments and then the international community to increase investments in this sector and to do so in a more strategic manner.

5. The OIE with the support of FAO pursue and further intensify its efforts to establish the application of good veterinary governance in developing and in transition countries to pave the way for sustainable public-private partnerships and involvement of the international donor community in support of a global strategy for the control of FMD.

6. A strategy for the global control for FMD should incorporate and acknowledge existing and ongoing national and regional mechanisms that have already achieved progress in moving towards the regional control of FMD such as those of the Hemispheric FMD Eradication Plan for bi- or tri-national border zones, the CVP/MERCOSUR, SEAFMD, European Union and the EUFMD

7. The FAO and OIE should continue their efforts to promote long term, coordinated regional initiatives (roadmaps) for the progressive control of FMD covering each of the major virus reservoirs;

8. OIE standards regarding quality of vaccines must be strictly respected by all countries worldwide, and mechanisms for quality assurance observed.

9. Further research on the development of effective and quality vaccines and the availability of vaccines at diminished cost for all prevailing field strains of the FMD virus for all susceptible domestic animals be encouraged and expedited with the emphasis on the availability, cost-effectiveness and safe use under challenging environmental conditions.

10. The OIE with the support of FAO and in collaboration with the international donor community, consider the establishment of vaccine banks for FMD vaccines in strategic locations and in support of regional FMD control programs.

11. The establishment of and access to diagnostic facilities for the quick and efficient diagnosis of FMD be further enhanced through initiatives such as the OIE laboratory twinning program and the FAO laboratories network development program. Diagnostic tests must comply with standards of the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals and their inscription into the OIE register of all diagnostic tests is recommended.

12. The OIE continue to update existing international standards for FMD and encourage the official recognition of countries and zones listed free from the disease. In the updating of international standards the OIE should encourage further research to allow the safe trade in animal products without unjustified barriers to trade while recognizing the needs of developing and in transition countries which are still progressing along the pathway towards the progressive control or eradication of FMD, while protecting free countries from virus reintroduction and maintaining efficient veterinary services and field surveillance of the disease.

13. FAO should continue to support national capacity building of developing and in transition countries to comply with OIE standards, and should develop the methods, guides, tools, training and technical support to member states for the introduction and implementation of the progressive control pathway at national level;

14. OIE and FAO organise as a next step a pledging conference with free and infected countries, and relevant organisations and donors, to support a global control program starting with relevant regional activities. The conference noted the candidature of the People’s Republic of China to host the next conference.

15. In support of the global programme, the FAO and OIE organize regular global scientific meetings on FMD control, rotating around the affected regions. The conference noted the candidature of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research to host the next FMD global scientific meeting (in 2010 or 2011).

16. The OIE develops its capacities for disease status recognition to support adequately the increase of number of countries and zones requesting recognition following the implementation of the new global control program.

17. FAO with the political and normative support of the OIE should strengthen its capacities to technically support national and regional roadmap development for the progressive control of FMD at national and regional level, thereby contributing to the global control of this high-impact disease.

18. The OIE and FAO should support epidemiological networks and strengthen cooperation for national, regional and global surveillance systems for FMD. Transparency and timely disease reporting to WAHIS is a key element to protect FMD free countries and zones and monitoring the progress of FMD control in endemic areas.

19. National governments and regional organizations should actively encourage the support and cooperation of nature and wildlife conservation organizations when formulating national and regional control strategies for FMD control

20. National governments should in the development of disease control programs for FMD, give due consideration for the inclusion of compensation mechanisms for livestock owners in consultation with the private sector and the donor community.

The Vanishing Vet Trick

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What is one of the many lessons learned and outcome of the UK FMD outbreak?  Veterinarians vanished from the pastoral rolling hills of the United Kingdom.  With the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) entrenched in the US along with other draconian regulations veterinarians are now finding themselves out of a job.  What is the answer?  They get in the federal handout line just like the bankers, insurance companies and other private industry who are putting out their hands for “free” taxpayer money.  Are you willing to pay the high cost of NAIS and subsidize your local veterinarian who gets paid $10 bucks for signing you up for NAIS?

Lo and behold, there is a Support your Veterinarian bill in Congress!  Geesh, what a surprise!

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/sep09/090915a_pf.asp

From the trenches…..

Veterinary services legislation
introduced in Congress

Bipartisan bill would expand veterinary services nationwide

New legislation addressing the nation’s veterinary services needs is under consideration in the House of Representatives.

The AVMA played a key role in crafting the Veterinarian Services Investment Act (H.R. 3519), which was introduced July 31 by Republican Adrian Smith of Nebraska and Democrat Leonard Boswell of Iowa and had 17 co-sponsors as of mid-August. Continue reading →

God, Snakes, and Farming

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This has been a dry year.  As I carefully planted precious seeds in the earth it was necessary to water each seed and plant with a water bucket.  The water came from a distance and then needed to be applied morning and evening, in the blazing sun.  The parched earth soaked up more than the farmer can provide.  Weeds prospered with the new and tender eatable plants struggled to find their place in the garden at the base of the mountain.  The earth is not rich; crows, camp-robbers and plant destroying insects & blights were plentiful.  These tiny sucklings are attempting to nurse nourishment from the ground also had to contend with predators who desired to devour and destroy.  The elements include the killer frost which turns thriving plants a sickly yellow.  Day in and day out the farmer works the ground, contends with predators, and keeps watch over the farm.  The other day I saw a snake slithering by, whether it was poisonous or not only the good Lord knows.

“It’s not the poisonous snake, but sin that kills”.

Admittedly, it is enormously difficult for flesh and blood creatures in a cause-and -effect, material world to perceive that the pain, swelling, fever, and death were not caused by the venom of sin rather than the venom of snake.  But belief in God demands no less.  Just as we know the carpenter, not the hammer that drives in the nails, we must also know that it is God not bacteria, Who punishes.  The difficulty in first accepting this concept intellectually and then translating it into a formula of life is a manifestation of God’s master plan: that His Name be hidden, that His Guiding Hand be hidden-and that mortal man be charged with the task of discerning His presence and His will.

There are few occupations where hard work and sweat are as directly related ot success as farming.  Faith in God is typified in agriculture than other occupations.  A man stranded on a desert island has no choice but ot have faith.  A man who subsists through random chores may demonstrate faith that God will not forsake him.  But God wants more of us.

A farmer labors long and hard from dawn to dusk, doing backbreaking work, under the burning sun and battling the elements throughout his career as he wrings his sustenance from the grudging earth.  When the harvest is completed can he give his thanks to God, proclaiming that despite all his travail, his blessings came from God alone?  That belief constitutes a vindication of man’s existence, for he has cut through the layers that obscure the ultimate fact that all blessing comes from God.

Introduction to the Artscroll commentary on Lamentations

The labor of the farmer has now been made more difficult through burdensome regulations and new laws that will extract the farmer’s precious time and money.  The modern farmer will not only have to battle the elements but also genetically modified seeds, pollution from above, changes in weather, but most of the new global standards which will eradicate small traditional farming from the landscape of the globe. The traditional farming walls were breached as local, state and the federal government adopted the UN Terrestrial Animal Health Code which dictates much more than just animal health. Now that the historical wall has been breached a grievous famine will ensue, you can count on it, as this has happened before but this time will be unprecedented in world history.

10 Minute Citizen: There is no place to flee so please help support your local farmer and rancher: Say No to NAIS, no to global agriculture.  Purchase fresh and safe local foods.

Washington State Senate Introduces Voluntary NAIS

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S-1526.1
SENATE BILL 5956

State of Washington 61st Legislature 2009 Regular Session

By Senators Schoesler, Shin, Stevens, Zarelli, Marr, and Benton
Read first time 02/10/09. Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development.
1 AN ACT Relating to voluntary participation in a state or national 2 animal identification system; and adding a new section to chapter 16.57 3 RCW.

4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

5 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 16.57 RCW 6 to read as follows: 7 (1) Voluntary participation in any state or national animal 8 identification system must be obtained with informed written consent. 9 (2) No officer, agency, or instrumentality of the state, in
10 conjunction with the implementation of any state or national animal 11 identification system, may: 12 (a) Mandate, coerce, use exclusionary tactics, support, or 13 otherwise force participation in a state or national animal 14 identification system; 15 (b) Register real property, assign real property identification 16 numbers, or otherwise enroll any person in a state or national animal 17 identification system without the person’s prior knowledge and written 18 consent;

p.1 SB5956
1 (c) Withhold, from any person, indemnity based on the person’s 2 status of participation in a state or national animal identification 3 system; or 4 (d) Deny, revoke, or limit services, certificates, licenses, 5 permits, grants, or other benefits or incentives to any person based on 6 the person’s status of participation in a state or national animal 7 identification system. 8 (3) Nothing in this section prohibits: 9 (a) The state from establishing or participating in disease control

10 programs specifically designed to address a specific disease in a 11 specific species of livestock; 12 (b) Private agricultural industry organizations from establishing 13 any source verification program; or 14 (c) Any person from voluntarily participating in a state or 15 national animal identification system. 16 (4) For the purposes of this section, “voluntary” means acting or 17 done without compulsion or obligation.
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SB5956 p.2

The Late Great Agrarian Enslavement-Famine in the Land

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 The Late Great Agrarian Enslavement Plan

America is about to enter an Agrarian Enslavement paradigm.Embedded within the pages of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, is a fore shadow of events which will soon come to pass worldwide.  Now there was no bread in all the earth for the famine was very severe.  Throughout ancient history famine was present during politically pivotal times in history.During these times of famine commodities could not be found in the market place or in homes at large.

Typically a time of famine was offset by a bountiful time of plenty.These were periods where people and also governments had opportunity to store of for the times of famine to supply needs and also make a healthy profit, if some was to be made.It can be noted that in the Hebrew the word wheat can also mean

An early bible story relates how the first government Voluntary Commodity Program was created.It began with an agenda whereby farmers would volunteer and invest in their community.They would each be required to submit their products and talents into the government storehouses for community benefit. Socialist and Fascist countries have been doing this for years but the concept is new to a free Republic.Unfortunately the last few decades has seen voluntary service rising. Continue reading →

USDA: Using UAV (Drones) to Monitor the Farm

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If it can be used for crops it can be used for animals, as cited in other “projects”

Research Project: MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR ARID RANGELANDS

Location: Range Management Research

Title: The remote characterization of vegetation using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle photography

Authors
item Rango, Albert
Laliberte, Andrea – NEW MEXICO STATE UNIV
Winters, Craig – NEW MEXICO STATE UNIV
Maxwell, Connie
Steele, Caiti – NEW MEXICO STATE UNIV

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract
Publication Acceptance Date: December 12, 2008
Publication Date: December 17, 2008
Citation: Rango, A., Laliberte, A., Winters, C., Maxwell, C.J., Steele, C. 2008. The remote characterization of vegetation using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle photography [abstract]. AGU 2008 Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2008, San Francisco, California. B32A-01 CDROM.

Technical Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can fly in place of piloted aircraft to gather remote sensing information on vegetation characteristics. The type of sensors flown depends on the instrument payload capacity available, so that, depending on the specific UAV, it is possible to obtain video, aerial photographic, multispectral and hyperspectral radiometric, LIDAR, and radar data. The characteristics of several small UAVs less than 55lbs (25kg)) along with some payload instruments will be reviewed. Common types of remote sensing coverage available from a small, limited-payload UAV are video and hyperspatial, digital photography. From evaluation of these simple types of remote sensing data, we conclude that UAVs can play an important role in measuring and monitoring vegetation health and structure of the vegetation/soil complex in rangelands. If we fly our MLB Bat-3 at an altitude of 700ft (213m), we can obtain a digital photographic resolution of 6cm. The digital images acquired cover an area of approximately 29,350sq m. Video imaging is usually only useful for monitoring the flight path of the UAV in real time. In our experiments with the 6cm resolution data, we have been able to measure vegetation patch size, crown width, gap sizes between vegetation, percent vegetation and bare soil cover, and type of vegetation. The UAV system is also being tested to acquire height of the vegetation canopy using shadow measurements and a digital elevation model obtained with stereo images. Evaluation of combining the UAV digital photography with LIDAR data of the Jornada Experimental Range in south central New Mexico is ongoing. The use of UAVs is increasing and is becoming a very promising tool for vegetation assessment and change, but there are several operational components to flying UAVs that users need to consider. These include cost, a whole set of, as yet, undefined regulations regarding flying in the National Air Space(NAS), procedures to gain approval for flying in the NAS(FAA Certificate of Authorization), and training(remote control piloting, UAV-specific instruction, FAA ground school and testing, FAA observer procedures, FAA medical Class 2 exam, and a private pilot’s license). The relevance and need of all these to developing a UAV capability will be explained. While working through the necessary requirements above, we have also learned that we need to know how to handle extremely large and easily acquired data sets as well as to develop tools to orthorectify and mosaic individual UAV images for analysis.

Just think of the possibilities….making sure your animals have the humane time in the field, or watching their grazing to ensure you comply with UN environmental standards, possibilities are endless.  Of course there will be a cost, there is always a fee.