NY dairy farmer turns the tables when the ag inspectors arrive for a mystery visit - (The Complete Patient)
October 31, 2007 – 11:18 pmOver the last two weeks, Andrea Elliott has been writing emails to farm associations, her Congressman, and members of the U.S. House and Senate agriculture committeesall urging that the upcoming farm bill not include funding for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). She and her husband, Jim, own a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York, and she made it plain in her notes that she is adamantly opposed to registering the farms 80 cows under the federal program.
Yesterday (Monday) she received a call from an inspector with the New York Department of Food and Markets in Albany that he planned to come by the farm for a special inspection, based on a complaint made to the departments Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services.
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