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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 196874" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>Well, I was a member of the BC Cattlemens association, until someone thought that they needed to enact a 'horn levy fund' in order to please the feeder's association.</p><p></p><p>Now when you ship cattle, if you have a calf with horn visible past the hair or mature animals with 3/4" of horn or longer then you get charged $10.00 a head by the brand inspector ( a job that they don't relish as it's really not their jurisdiction), although the OII (Ownership Identification Inc - provincially designated brand inspectors) states on their website that the horn charge is $2.00 per head, so perhaps they haven't updated their website.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that kind of frosted my cookies, as even though we do our best to dehorn, it sure seems like another hand in the pocket of the grassroots of the beef industry - not to mention a bit biased against some of the naturally horned stock such as the Horned Herefords, etc.</p><p></p><p>Also due to the CCA's policy of "let's not make any waves with the big money by asking for 100% testing" when the Canadian cattle industry was in dire straits due to the first BSE case, I've become thoroughly disenchanted with them as well.</p><p></p><p>A direct quote from one gentleman at the CCA that I was talking with "We don't want to raise the bar for the BSE testing standards in Canada because that might not sit well with our counterparts in the US and it will not help get the border opened if we follow that line." Yeah...and it had only been shut for almost a year when I talked with him at that point. The "wait and see" attitude that they were promoting really did us a world of good for that first year, and finally into the second year they started to make noises about some proactive ideas for the industry. :roll: </p><p></p><p>Of course, the BCCA followed the sterling example set out by the CCA...more "yes sir, no sir, how high do you want us to jump, sir?". Disgusting.</p><p></p><p>Maybe someone will form a more commonsense organisation one day, but right now there seems to be a lack of concern for the producers' point of view in these existing ones.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 196874, member: 220"] Well, I was a member of the BC Cattlemens association, until someone thought that they needed to enact a 'horn levy fund' in order to please the feeder's association. Now when you ship cattle, if you have a calf with horn visible past the hair or mature animals with 3/4" of horn or longer then you get charged $10.00 a head by the brand inspector ( a job that they don't relish as it's really not their jurisdiction), although the OII (Ownership Identification Inc - provincially designated brand inspectors) states on their website that the horn charge is $2.00 per head, so perhaps they haven't updated their website. Anyway, that kind of frosted my cookies, as even though we do our best to dehorn, it sure seems like another hand in the pocket of the grassroots of the beef industry - not to mention a bit biased against some of the naturally horned stock such as the Horned Herefords, etc. Also due to the CCA's policy of "let's not make any waves with the big money by asking for 100% testing" when the Canadian cattle industry was in dire straits due to the first BSE case, I've become thoroughly disenchanted with them as well. A direct quote from one gentleman at the CCA that I was talking with "We don't want to raise the bar for the BSE testing standards in Canada because that might not sit well with our counterparts in the US and it will not help get the border opened if we follow that line." Yeah...and it had only been shut for almost a year when I talked with him at that point. The "wait and see" attitude that they were promoting really did us a world of good for that first year, and finally into the second year they started to make noises about some proactive ideas for the industry. :roll: Of course, the BCCA followed the sterling example set out by the CCA...more "yes sir, no sir, how high do you want us to jump, sir?". Disgusting. Maybe someone will form a more commonsense organisation one day, but right now there seems to be a lack of concern for the producers' point of view in these existing ones. Take care. [/QUOTE]
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