Farmers Against NAIS

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This group is for the many of us who are tired of "Big Business" dictating policy and forcing the small, local guys to pay the price. I will do my best to keep all of the members on top of all the developments in the Govt'.

Website: http://www.grayhorsefarm.org
Location: Dutchess County
Members: 13
Latest Activity: May 26

NAIS will put Livestock owners under closer surveillance than terrorists, illegals aliens, drug dealers, and convicted sex offenders/child molesters. Currently, only convicted sex offenders/child molesters have to register their premises

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USDA passes organic standards, asks for finishing input 1 Reply

I'd be very interested to hear what local farmers think of this: WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2010 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced details of the final regulation regarding access to pa…

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Started by Meghan E. Murphy. Last reply by Joyce Henion Feb 16.

Life Under the Animal ID System 1 Reply

This is a Blog Post that I absolutely love, I thought I'd pass it along "Along about March of 2005 my brother and his wife moved to town and gave us 3 hens as pets for the kids. He had to file 2 set…

Started by Gray Horse Farm. Last reply by Susan Eckhardt Dec. 17, 2009.

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Comment by Gray Horse Farm on April 28, 2010 at 5:35am: Ok, well thanks to Miss Murphy, I am able to post here again. You see I have very limited access to a computer so I do most of my ramblings from my phone, and now HVFN is hooked up on my phone......but anyway, thanks Megan

So here's a quick update, I have been reluctant to say "NAIS" is "OVER" do to the nature of our Govt' and how they operate. So, in hearing this news, I wasn't surprised.......Mr. Miller, a plain farmer from Wisconsin, will sit in court AGAIN because his wonderful state hurried to pass the "Premises Registration" law last year. Now even though the NAIS program was dismantled in Feb. This law is on the books now......Mr. Miller refuses to register his land due to "religious right", and so be it. This State needs to remove this law, and clear Mr. Millers name.......I will be updating soon, thanks

Comment by Meghan E. Murphy on February 12, 2010 at 10:16am: Looks like the plan for animal tracking is going to be reworked:

Comment by Joyce Henion on February 8, 2010 at 5:34pm: Just found this bit of good news in my inbox: http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/usda-sets-sights-on-new-plan-for-national-animal-identification-system/14189.html. It looks like the NAIS program is at least going to be reworked with small and organic farmers considered rather than a system weighted toward agribusiness farms.

Comment by Joyce Henion on December 10, 2009 at 5:54pm: With being so busy during the 2009 farmers market season I am not up to date on where things are going with the NAIS program right now. I can say I have been pretty infuriated by NYS assigning premise IDs to farms within the state (lucky me, I have one) and the American Dairy Goat Association's support of the program. Not only would NAIS impact small family farms negatively but children doing 4H projects would be subject to similar surveillance.

Look, I'm getting all flustered just beginning to think about this whole thing again. Speak out against this invasion of farmer's and families' privacy.