How Many are BQA Certified?

[HOSS]

I'm BQA certified. Takes about 2 or 3 hrs here. A video, handouts and a test. Pretty easy and good practices to follow.

 

[Craig Miller]

Never heard of it til now.

 

[chippie]

I am not BQA certified. I believe that it is a good thing, especially if one plans on marketing locker beef.

This link is to all of the workshops sponsored by the animal science dept at TX A&M. There are several Beef related.

http://animalscience.tamu.edu/workshops/

 

[pappy6]

I am...gives some good info and as an aid to help an old guy see what the current market expects.

 

[Dave]

I am not and the only place I have heard of it is here on CT. To the best of my knowledge it has never been offered as a program in this state or neighboring states. And my day job puts me in a position that I certainly would have heard about it.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I am not and the only place I have heard of it is here on CT. To the best of my knowledge it has never been offered as a program in this state or neighboring states. And my day job puts me in a position that I certainly would have heard about it.

Offered in all 50 states here is the link to your state
http://www.bqa.org/washington.aspx

Links to all 50

http://www.bqa.org/getcertified.aspx

 

[bball]

Just completed the course work...waiting for the exam. Offered through Purdue University around here.

 

[muleskinner]

I am the job requires it. Here is one of the sites that we us.

https://www.animalcaretraining.org/index.aspx

BI will offer it free from time to time.

 

[TN Cattle Man]

I am BQA Certified! Good practices that we all need to follow.

 

[HDRider]

I am not and the only place I have heard of it is here on CT. To the best of my knowledge it has never been offered as a program in this state or neighboring states. And my day job puts me in a position that I certainly would have heard about it.

Offered in all 50 states here is the link to your state
http://www.bqa.org/washington.aspx

Links to all 50

http://www.bqa.org/getcertified.aspx

I went to that 2nd link. https://www.animalcaretraining.org/Packagedetail.aspx

It looks like it is very expensive.

 

[Dave]

I am not and the only place I have heard of it is here on CT. To the best of my knowledge it has never been offered as a program in this state or neighboring states. And my day job puts me in a position that I certainly would have heard about it.

Offered in all 50 states here is the link to your state
http://www.bqa.org/washington.aspx

Links to all 50

http://www.bqa.org/getcertified.aspx

Interesting that there are two men listed as contacts for Washington. One is a Vet with an address over at WSU so I am assuming he has something to do with the Vet school. I know the other man. I have sat beside him in meetings. Never a mention of this program. I don't think the program is pushed at all here. I know a couple of the past presidents of the state cattlemen's association, I will have to ask them the next time I see one of them.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I am not and the only place I have heard of it is here on CT. To the best of my knowledge it has never been offered as a program in this state or neighboring states. And my day job puts me in a position that I certainly would have heard about it.

Offered in all 50 states here is the link to your state
http://www.bqa.org/washington.aspx

Links to all 50

http://www.bqa.org/getcertified.aspx

I went to that 2nd link. https://www.animalcaretraining.org/Packagedetail.aspx

It looks like it is very expensive.

Ryder my crystal ball says if your not in the next five to ten years you wont be
able to sell your product for human consumption.
This is about food safety the way I see it is buy a ticket and get on the train or be left
standing waving bye at the station.

 

[shaz]

We're BQA and Master Beef Producer. Master Beef Producer was about 20 hours of power point.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

I've had all of the QA's for livestock that you can think of, all were pretty much common sense stuff, at least it was to me. Only one that was interesting was TQA, lots of different rules to follow for trucking livestock.